Some surprising facts came to light when home department made presentation on crime rate in the pre-budget session on 7th January. Vijayawada in the number two spot in crime rate after Delhi.
This news has become as a blow for the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu as keeps reiterating that there will be a world class capital around Vijayawada. Several officers, including senior IAS officers were shocked at the presentation.
In the pre-Budget session after the power point presentation by the finance department, “Andhra Pradesh director-general of police J.V. Ramudu and A.R. Anuradha, additional DG (intelligence) made the presentation,” the AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu asked the police department to make the presentation.
The National Crime Records Bureau two years ago had said that “Hyderabad city is no longer a safe place for women and was ranked as one of the most unsafe cities for women in India.”
“The report is being kept under wraps as it would badly hit the capital city plans of the present government,” according to the sources.