Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has informed his cabinet that the state administration will start functioning from Visakhapatnam on Dussehra.The cabinet met on Wednesday as the Assembly is set to begin its monsoon session on Thursday.
CM Jagan said the chief minister’s office would shift to Visakhapatnam on the Dussehra day, November 2, and that the ministers should be prepared to work from there.The Cabinet chaired by the Chief Minister approved several key decisions in the meeting held today at Tadepalli.
The cabinet has resolved to implement a fee reimbursement scheme for the children of retired government employees and to provide benefits of the Aarogyasri scheme to the retired government employees and their kin.The cabinet also decided that each government employee should have a permanent house site by the time he or she retires.The cabinet gave its nod to the Guaranteed Pension Scheme Bill for government employees.
The cabinet meeting approved proposals to allot 50 per cent of seats to tribals in the upcoming engineering college in Kurupam and to construct 8,424 houses for the Polavaram flood victims.
Jagan Mohan Reddy, who has been pushing for decentralised development, announced at the International Diplomatic Alliance Meet in New Delhi on January 31 that Visakhapatnam would become the capital of the state soon.
The chief minister has proposed establishing three capitals to ensure equal development of the state.
While Amaravati, which previous chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu had started to develop as the capital, will be the legislative capital, Visakhapatnam will be the executive/administration capital, and Kurnool will be the judicial capital.
