Hyderabad, August 25: The Minister for Forests and Environment, Mr P Ramachandra Reddy, on Tuesday condemned the news reports that the “YSR Smrithi Vanam” at Pavuralagutta would be confined to 26 acres due to denial of clearance by the Union Forest and Environment Ministry for taking up construction of the memorial in the reserved forest area.
Speaking to mediapersons in the Secretariat, Mr ramachandra Reddy said that there was no truth in the news story published in a vernacular daily that “YSR Smrithi Vanam” would confine to 26 acres of revenue land at Pavuralagutta.
Reminding that the State government had decided to set up “YSR Smrithi Vanam” at Pavuralagutta in 3,000 acres of reserve forest area, the minister said that structures would be raised in the reserve forest area as per the rules. He also made it clear that concrete structures would not be raised in the reserve forest as per the rules.
Mr Reddy also said that Centre has positively reacted to the request of the State government for setting up of YSR memorial in 3,000 acres of reserve forest at Pavuralagutta, where YSR died in a chopper crash.
The Chief Minister, Mr K Rosaiah, would unveil YSR statute at the proposed site in YSR Smrithi Vanam, he added.
——–NSS