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  1. Are we a democracy or a zamindari?

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    / November 1, 2012 / 2 Comments
    After a similar episode involving Roads and Buildings minister Dharmana Prasada Rao in February this year, now it is the turn of Transport minister and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana in whose house there is a wedding. This is a case of extravagance and blatant misuse of public funds and public...

  2. Lessons to learn from Rushikonda tragedy

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    / October 18, 2012 /
    It was unfortunate that six young students of Gitam Engineering College should lose their precious lives, while trying to bathe in the sea near Rushikonda near Vizag yesterday. I feel sorry for the parents of the students. What concerns me most is the fact that such accidents take place every...

  3. What’s your pole number?

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    / September 20, 2012 /
    Do you know your pole number? You know that electrical pole outside your apartment or villa? If you do not know, then as a good citizen, go down and take a look. What do you see? Does it have a number on it? I don’t mean the number of the...

  4. Vizag, a city of poles?!

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    / July 6, 2012 /
    The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) officials have been instructed to plant 1 lakh trees in Vizag city. This is highly commendable. As is clear from any Google satellite image of Vizag, almost all the greenery in Vizag is only within compounds such as Railways, Andhra University, HPCL Quarters, Harbour...

  5. Don’t approve bauxite mining in Vizag

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    / May 27, 2012 /
    The Kala Committee has failed to visit the bauxite mining areas of Visakhapatnam as the local tribals organized a bandh against its visit. The only visit that was made by them to the area was in a helicopter, that too reportedly funded by the mining companies from whom the committee...

  6. Is GVMC really logged on to Vizag’s problems?

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    / May 22, 2012 /
    This site (gvmc.gov.in) appears to be made more for the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) rather than for the public for whom the corporation exists. GVMC collects taxes from us and is supposed to serve the citizens of Vizag. Its website should therefore be informative and designed to help the public. While...

  7. Cancel environmental clearance

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    / February 29, 2012 /
    The East Coast Energy Pvt. Ltd. (ECEPL) project at Kakarapalli in Srikakulam district should not have been cleared in the first instance by the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) for Thermal Projects of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) as it is wrongly located in a wetland. The National Environment Policy approved by the...

  8. When you are helpless, you turn poetic

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    / February 25, 2012 / 2 Comments
    This is an email received from Sohan Hattangadi from Visakhapatnam. Here he takes to poetry, `inspired’ by the Vizag collector’s resolve that the city will be like Mumbai in a decade.  `The South Reports’ reproduces Sohan’s mail in full :  Our youthful collector said that Vizag will become like Mumbai in 10...

  9. Vizag on the right track

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    / February 24, 2012 /
    The City of Destiny is showing the way. The Hindu reports that the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation plans to introduce a community cycling initiative over 10.5 sq km of roads in downtown Vizag. Already `No motor vehicle’ zones across 20 km of roads is in place. Way to go, Vizag!

  10. Something is foul in the Vizag air

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    / January 16, 2012 /
    Despite the notices issued by AP Pollution Control Board to HPCL to back down some of their stacks to prevent air pollution that caused inconvenience to the people of Visakhapatnam during last November, the chemical smell is back in Vizag, giving one the impression that APPCB discharges its functions only...

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