
Top Andhra Pradesh news developments
The Hindu
Here are the expected news developments from Andhra Pradesh today:
1. The government is scheduled to move AP Private Universities (Establishment & Regulation) Amendment Bill and put to vote the demands for grants to housing and tribal, social, backward classes, minorities and women and child welfare departments.
2. Secretary of Planning Department, G. Srkr Vijay Kumar to attend a seminar on social justice at ANU Ongole campus.
3. Jana Sena Party political affairs committee chairman Nadendla Manohar to hold a press meet.
4. The rift between citizens and the secretariat staff over user charges for garbage collection continues to widen in Visakhapatnam city. A few residents’ welfare associations point out that the secretariat staff are forcing them to pay the charges.
5. Transport Department hikes the fee for re-registration of old motor vehicles in Visakhapatnam.
6. Anantapur Municipal Corporation fast-tracks road laying works with the 14th Finance Commission funds.

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