Visakhapatnam, April 22: YSRCP has questioned the rationale behind the coalition government allotting prime land in the city to a two-month old company which has no proven credentials and its policy of giving away land to its favoured units to route kickback through shell companies.
Speaking to media here on Tuesday, former minister Gudivada Amarnath said the government has allocated 59.36 acres of prime land to URSA Clusters Private Limited which was registered just two months back with two NRIs as directors and who do not have the expertise to run a data centre.
The company’s registered office is in a private flat in Hyderabad while the two directors work in the US and how they would be investing the amount and run the company has no proper answers. This shows that the company if floated only to serve the interests of people in high office, he said.
An investigative report was published in a national website about the URSA episode in great detail with documentary evidence and the government should be answering the questions raised in the article.
The procedure moved in a very swift manner for applying to the cabinet approval which raises the doubts that there are vested interests and the issue was pushed through to suit their interests. Allotting land to TCS at 99 paise per acre itself has been a point of discussion showing that as a precedence the coalition government has been giving away prime land on a platter to its favored people and routing kickbacks through shell companies, he said.
IT Minster Lokesh had confessed that allotting land and low prices to industries has been the policy of TDP since long and this time it has done nothing different. Whether the coalition partners would agree to this or not should be known, he said.
Chandarbabu Naidu during his previous term as Chief Minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh had also allocated land to IMG infra with no proper credentials and it has backfired with the subsequent government cancelling the allotment, he said.
While YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government has put in efforts to develop Vizag as executive capital, the coalition government is giving away and to its coteries at throwaway prices and it has to face the ire of the people in the coming days, he said.
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