Hyderabad, October 18: The Chief Minister, Mr K Rosaiah on Monday opined that the apprehensions prevailing in a section of people over allocation of land belonging to the University of Hyderabad for setting up of campus of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research were irrelevant and baseless.
Speaking to the media persons in the Secretariat here, the
Chief Minister pointed out that some persons including the staff of the university were expressing concern over the allocation of land to TIFR with a misconception that the institute was a private one.
Actually, the TIFR was a unit of Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. Stating that TIFR was a prestigious one in the country, he reminded that the institute has come to the City due to lot of efforts, though several other states also tried for the institute. In all, Rs 2,500 crores would be invested in the project,
he pointed out.
Stating that the employees of University of Hyderabad were
having a feeling that the Government was giving away their land to other institutions, but not allocating house sites to them, he pointed out that the house sites matter was struck in the court. He assured that house sites would be allocated to the university employees immediately after the clearance of the judicial obstacle. Allocation of lands by the Universities to research institutions was in practice, he reminded.
Stating that the food grains production would increase in this season due to good rains, he expected that the arrival of new crop would begin in the end of this month. This situation would demand more godown space. The Railways assured to provide seven rakes per day fortransportation of the stocks in godowns, but it failed to provide the
rakes as planned.
The Chief Minister informed that he would request the Prime
Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, during his trip to Hyderabad, to shift the built up stocks in FCI godowns for creation of space to provide storing facility to arriving crop.
FCI should also set-up paddy purchasing centres to procure the paddy from the farmers, and to ensure that the price of the produce would not fall down.
Stating that there are heavy stocks of boiled rice in FCI godowns in the state, he pointed out that the demand for boiled rice in West Bengal market, to where they were generally sent, was also decreased.
Therefore, export of boiled rice to other countries should be allowed. A memorandum would be submitted to the Prime Minister in the matter, he informed.
He felt that the existing warehousing scheme was not attracting the investors to setup godowns. Hence, there was a need to make a new policy to promote the setting up of godowns.
The Chief Minister has also expressed strong issatisfaction over the ultimatum of Rice Millers that they would not purchase paddy from October 15. The Millers should cooperate to solve the issue, but they should not
create new issues, he advised.
——–NSS