3,00,000 crore Investment Proposals For Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh Industries Minister J Geetha Reddy announced that the State has received 140 proposals worth Rs 3,00,000 crore investments for industries across various sectors.

The State Investment Promotion Board (SIPB) has given nod to 24 projects including two in the automotive sector where Mahindra & Mahindra will participate and two in the petrochemical sector of Amerind Petrochemicals (Rs 9,950 crore) and Al Qebla Al Watya (Rs 40,000 crore) in the Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Regions (PCPIR) in Visakhapatnam. The proposals that have been given the nod by the SIPB involve an investment of Rs 76,552 crore and these units when completed would directly employ about 71,908 people.

In all, the proposals that Andhra Pradesh received included 29 mega projects, 19 non-mega projects and 15 related to public sector units including BDL, HAL, BEL and NPCL involving an investment of Rs1,22,000 crore. Investment proposals in the power sector were worth Rs 1,67,725 crore, Rs 3,000 crore in the IT sector, Rs 20,000 crore for infrastructure projects and Rs 1,300 crore tourism projects, he said.

If the proposed projects materialise they would result in creating employment to more than 2,50,000 people, the minister said. Meanwhile, the state is making arrangements for ‘New age innovation partnership summit’, a prestigious event where delegates from 26 countries are expected to participate. The event, being organised in association with Confederation of India Industry, will be held at Hyderabad from January 11 to 13.

Modi Is Not Our PM: Owaisi

MIM is a recognized state political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, with its head office in the old city of Hyderabad, which has its roots in the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen founded in 1927. Unlike most of the regional and national level parties, MIM party leaders ‘fight’ only for the well-being of Muslims, whereas no other party has such communal feelings. In their each and every speech, MIM leaders speak only about Muslims. If these leaders are here to fight for Muslims, then why there are no development works are happening in old city area for decades. Akbaruddin Owaisi faced criticism for making hate remarks on Narendra Modi and Hindus. Recently, his elder brother Asaduddin Owaisi made some notorious annotations. In a one-on-one debate between BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi on the topic of demonetization in a popular Hindi channel, the former left no stone unturned in exposing the latter’s communal designs. Owaisi claimed how most of the Muslim community still remains unbanked and that demonetization has caused severe inconvenience to Muslims. He even went on to say that ATM’s in Muslim-dominated areas weren’t fed enough money. He indirectly alleged that the Modi government hadn’t done anything for Muslims. Even after being pressurized Owaisi didn’t call Narendra Modi as his Prime Minister. He went on said, “Your Prime Minister…” On the other hand, Sambit spoke wisely and called Owaisi a leader of small stature because he talked only of Muslims. He said that no area was Muslim or Hindu and that all areas belonged to India. Owaisi was constantly quoting an RBI report, to which Sambit challenged him to show where the RBI had used the word ‘Muslim’. Sambit even said that if a Muslim leader speaks of Muslims it’s not an issue, but the moment a VHP leader speaks of Hindus people go crazy accusing them of imposing the Hindutva ideology. The most amazing of his counters was to Owaisi’s claims of Muslims not having been brought into the banking system. Sambit said that when banks or ATMs are to be opened in Muslim areas leaders like Owaisi shout that banking is un-Islamic and that Muslims should refrain from it! This video of debate between Sambit Patra and Asaduddin Owaisi is going viral in social media.