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‘Set up airports in every district’: Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Reddy

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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy directed the Infrastructure and Investments (I and I) Department to plan and construct at least seven new airports in the state under the ‘One District – One Airport’ concept.

The “One District – One Airport is a good concept,” the Chief Minister said, and asked the officials of the I and I Department to build the new airports in identical fashion with a capacity to handle even Boeing-type aircraft, a press release from the CMO said.

The Chief Minister made this point at a review meeting on Thursday.

Andhra Pradesh has 13 districts with functional airports in Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Tirupati, Rajamahendravaram, Kurnool and Kadapa.

The government initiated the process to create at least 12 new districts but the CMO note did not say if the proposed new districts, too, would have an airport each.

The Chief Minister wanted the officials to take up the expansion of the existing airports by drawing up an action plan within a timeframe.

It’s more than a year since the contract for development of a greenfield airport at Bhogapuram in Vizianagaram district was awarded to the GMR Group. However, the work is yet to start due to hitches in land acquisition.

The contract awarded by the previous Chandrababu Naidu government for the development of an airport at Dagadarthi in SPS Nellore district was terminated in July 2020 by the Jagan regime but no fresh developer has been chosen yet, official sources said.

The Chief Minister, at the review meeting, also directed the officials to ensure that the Bhogapuram and Dagadarthi airports works were expeditiously completed.

He asked them to take up expansion of the existing airports on a priority basis and focus particularly on the Vijayawada airport in view of the growing traffic.

Incidentally, the Airports Authority of India took up the Vijayawada airport expansion and completed the work to expand the runway.

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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