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The State Cabinet on Saturday extended open invitation to the private medical colleges and private universities from across the world to establish world-class institutions in the State. Briefing the media persons after the cabinet meeting, the Minister for Information, Palle Raghunatha Reddy said that the government decided to offer existing government hospitals as teaching hospitals for the medical colleges.
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- Private medical colleges, varsities to be encouraged to set up world-class institutions
- Houses in 100 sq yards in all urban areas to be regularised, without any fee
- ZP Chairperson salary hiked from Rs 7,500 to Rs 40,000
Vijayawada: The State Cabinet on Saturday extended open invitation to the private medical colleges and private universities from across the world to establish world-class institutions in the State. Briefing the media persons after the cabinet meeting, the Minister for Information, Palle Raghunatha Reddy said that the government decided to offer existing government hospitals as teaching hospitals for the medical colleges.
The government would also offer lands and incentives to the private universities to provide world-class institutions to the students of the State. The government decided to offer the Government General Hospital at Chittoor to the Apollo Hospitals Education and Research Foundation for a period of five years and the foundation is expected to utilise the existing facilities and staff of the hospital for its services and provide additional equipment.
He added that the government is ready to offer more such hospitals to the private medical colleges on the basis of merit. As part of its plan to make the State a knowledge hub, it will write to the top 20 such institutions in the country and 20 institutions across the world, offering them land and other incentives, he added.
The Minister said they will open new veterinary and polytechnic colleges across the State and regretted that the State which requires 75,000 veterinary surgeons, has just 30,000 surgeons right now. The government also decided to amend the Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University Act, 2005 to facilitate establishment of new institutions.
A veterinary college would come up at Garividi village of Cheepurupalli mandal of Srikakulam district and another Animal Husbandry College at Vanavasi village of Kurnool district. A three-member cabinet sub-committee consisting of Medical, Agriculture and Higher Education Ministers would study the need and recommend the number of colleges required for each district, he added.
The government would also establish three societies, e-governance at Visakhapatnam, Electronic and IT Agency at Vijayawada and Innovative Society at Tirupati to promote IT and electronics industries in the State. The e-governance society will have 25 posts, followed by 16 posts for the Electronic and IT society and 9 posts for the Innovative society, he added. The government would spend Rs 14.16 crore in two years to fill 38 posts in these three societies, the Minister added.
It also cleared 35 teaching and non-teaching posts for a degree college in Kuppam, one Additional Commissioner for the ACB, 8 posts in the chairperson’s office and 10 in the office of the State Finance Commissioner. It also decided to regularise all houses in the urban areas which are built in 100 square yards of plot, without any fee.
This would benefit thousands of the BPL families in all urban areas across the 13 districts, Reddy added. It allocated 2,000 square yards of land at Kakinada urban and two acres of land in Srikakulam to the NTR Trust at Rs 25,000 annual lease amount each for 99 years to build party offices.
He further said that 14.21 acres of land at Kurukalva village of Chittoor district to establish Indian Culinary Institute by the Union Ministry of Tourism and another 1,102 acres of land at Chinnatayyuru-Kokkirala Konda of S R Puram mandal in Chittoor district to the DRDO at Rs 1.25 lakh an acre was allocated to establish a Defence Research Institute.
Along with increasing salaries of ZPTCs and MPTCs Rs 6,000 and Rs 3,000 respectively, it also hiked ZP chairperson salary from Rs 7,500 to Rs 40,000, the Minister said. The government resolved to make a legislation asking the Centre to transfer all properties attached by the Enforcement Directorate in various corruption cases.
As these properties are from the State, the ED should transfer them to the government after confiscation. The cabinet also decided to withdraw 14.5 per cent VAT on biogas plants, gas supplied to the gas-based power plants as part of the Swacch Bharat programme, he added.
The government decided to make Telugu language compulsory in all schools and junior colleges including the English medium institutions. All government orders, the name boards of the government and private offices, business establishments will be in Telugu, he said.
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