Jagan urges Centre to start work on Petro Complex at Kakinada
The Hindu
The Andhra CM met with Central Ministers in New Delhi
Chief Minister Y.S Jagan Mohan Reddy ended his two-day visit to New Delhi after meeting Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan and Union Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal. Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy had called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog Rajiv Kumar on Thursday, in which the Chief Minister had discussed several key issues, including the decision to decentralise administration by having three Capitals in the State. During the meeting with Mr. Pradhan, the CM raised the issues relating to petro complex at Kakinada and Visakhapatnam Steel Plant. Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy reminded that establishment of a petro complex at Kakinada was one of the items in the AP Reorganisation Act- 2014 and a DPR of the complex was made by HPCL and GAIL with a capacity of one million metric tonnes costing ₹32,900 crore. The Centre had asked the State to provide ₹975 crore for a period of 15 years as part of viability gap funding.
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