Follow us on: RNI No. APENG/2018/764698 @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer Established 1864 Published From OPINION 6 MONEY 8 SPORTS 12 VIJAYAWADA DELHI LUCKNOW SMOME PM MODI LAUNCHES RS 20,050 DOWN BUT BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH WITHOUT FIRE CR SCHEME FOR FISHERIES NEVER OUT BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN HYDERABAD *Late City Vol. 2 Issue 310 VIJAYAWADA, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2020; PAGES 12 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable SAKHI WILL BE A PART OF ME FOREVER: KEERTHY { Page 12 } www.dailypioneer.com Jagan to AP Act doesn’t set limit on capitals: Centre to HC launch YSR Capital mentioned in AP Reorganisation doesn’t mean one single capital city, clarifies Union Government in its affidavit Aasara today SUMIT ONKA and had notified the same th- PNS n AMARAVATI n VISAKHAPATNAM rough a GO on April 23, 2015. Based on the said notifica- Chief Minister YS Rubbishing the claims of a High Court need not be in tion, the Survey of India incor- Jaganmohan Reddy will petitioner in the State High porated Amaravati as the cap- launch YSR Aasara scheme Court, the Centre on Thursday ital of Andhra Pradesh in the on Friday with the aim of made it clear that ‘a capital for latest political map of India handholding women’s Self the state of AP” mentioned in state's capital city, says MHA (English 9th Edition 2019 and Help Groups (SHGs) by the AP Reorganisation Act did Hindi 6th Edition 2020), the reimbursing their outstand- not mean one single capital. he AP High Court was on Thursday told that the notification of the President's Order on the MHA’s affidavit mentioned. ing dues. As many as 88 The affidavit also reinforced its Tconstitution of a separate High Court for Andhra Pradesh, with the principal seat at Amaravati, could Sections 94 (3) and (4) of the lakh women in the State stance that the Centre can cre- A petitioner in a rejoinder versa in all Central Acts and re- not be construed as the Central government's decision to declare Amaravati as the capital of the state. AP Reorganisation Act only stand to benefit from the ate new states, but cannot inte- has claimed that the words ‘a gulations (unless there is any- The principal seat of the High Court need not necessarily be in the capital city of the state, the Centre provides for financial assis- scheme. rfere in the state’s capital plan. capital for the State of Andhra thing repugnant in the subject maintained. The Ministry of Home Affairs made this assertion in an additional affidavit filed in the state tance by the Centre for the cre- Fulfilling one more of his Undersecretary in the MHA, Pradesh’ in the AP Reorgan- or context). The Act also sta- High Court in the ongoing litigation against the state government's move to have three capitals for AP. ation of essential facilities in the election promises, the Chief Lalita T. Hedaoo, filed a addi- isation Act meant a ‘single tes that masculine gender shall Continued on Page 3 new capital and to further Minister will be releasing Rs tional affidavit in the AP High capital’ only. Terming the inter- be taken to include females. facilitate denotification of 6,792.20 crores in the first Court in the case (Writ Petition pretation ‘totally wrong’, the In the affidavit, the Union degraded forest land, if neces- tranche towards reimburse- No. 13204 of 2020) challenging MHA conveyed to the AP government made its stand the Centre had to set up an officer KC Sivaramakrishnan to it was sent to the State govern- sary, for the same. The Centre ment of outstanding loans of the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy High Court that as per Section clear that establishment of the expert panel to suggest a suit- study alternatives for a new ment on September 1, 2014. has to fund the construction of SHGs. The amount will be government’s decision to estab- 13 of the General Clauses Act, capital is the prerogative of the able place for the capital. capital for Andhra Pradesh. The then government, led by the Secretariat, Raj Bhavan, directly credited to the bank lish three capitals in the state 1897, words in singular shall state government alone. As The Centre had formed the The Committee submitted its N Chandrababu Naidu, had ch- High Court, Legislative accounts of 8,71,302 SHGs. for decentralised development. include the plural and vice- per the AP Reorganisation Act, panel headed by retired IAS report on August 30, 2014 and osen Amaravati as the capital Assembly and Council. Continued on Page 3 20% of population in AP immune to Covid, finds study PNS n VIJAYAWADA ulation (40+ age group and those with comorbidities), Close to 20 per cent of the 20.3 per cent acquired 5.34 crore population in AP immunity. has acquired immunity to Interestingly, the survey COVID-19, a Sero preva- revealed that 90 to 100 per lence study has revealed. cent of the positives were The Sero survey was con- asymptomatic -- Chittoor ducted in two phases last district turned out 100 per month with a sample size of cent asymptomatic, 5,000 in each of the 13 dis- Anantapur 99.5 per cent, tricts, establishing that 19.7 Krishna 99.4 per cent, per cent of people developed Guntur and Srikakulam 98.5 antibodies for SARS-CoV-2, per cent each and Kurnool the infection-causing virus. 98.3 per cent. Disclosing the survey find- Prakasam, which is on a ings, AP Commissioner for steep ascent, showed 90.9 per Health and Family Welfare cent of the positive cases to Katamaneni Bhaskar said be asymptomatic. 22.5 per cent population in "Sero surveillance pro- urban areas and 18.2 per cent vides estimates of antibody in rural acquired immunity levels against infectious dis- for Covid-19. eases and is considered a gold Of the total surveyed, 19.9 standard for measuring pop- women and 19.5 per cent ulation immunity. We have men developed antibodies, completed one round of sur- he told a press conference on veillance in all districts in two Thursday evening. phases," Bhaskar said. Among the high-risk pop- Continued on Page 3 P3: Casualties continue to dip, AP adds 10,175 cases PIONEER IMPACT APPCB blank on storage violation PNS n VISAKHAPATNAM dangers the chemical storage posed to the Port City. The safety levels in industries A day after the Beirut in Visakhapatnam can be blast killed hundreds of gauged from the fact that people on August 4, The right until the massive blast Pioneer highlighted the triggered by the ammonium risks posed by the chemical nitrate stored in Beirut of stored in godowns in Lebanon, the authorities con- Visakhapatnam. cerned were unaware of the Continued on Page 3 TODAY Jagan asks ALMANAC CBI to probe Month & Paksham: Bhadrapada & Krishna Paksha Antarvedi Panchangam Tithi : Navami: 04:19 am (Next Day) chariot fire Nakshatram: Mrigashirsha: 03:25 pm PNS n VIJAYAWADA Time to Avoid: (Bad time to start any important work) Chief Minister YS Jaganm- Rahukalam: 10:41 am – 12:12 pm ohan Reddy on Thursday Yamagandam: 03:15 pm – 04:46 pm decided to entrust to the CBI the probe into the Varjyam: 12:10 am – 01:50 am chariot burning incident at Gulika: 07:38 am - 09:09 am the famous Lakshmi Good Time: (to start Narasimha Swamy temple any important work) at Antarvedi in East Amritakalam: 06:00 am – 07:40 am Godavari district. Abhijit Muhurtham: 11:48 am – 12:36 pm The CMO said in a release that Jagan has VIJAYAWADA taken the issue "seriously." "In spite of this, and the WEATHER local investigation which Forecast: Partly cloudy the AP police have taken Temp: 34/26 as a challenge, some polit- Humidity: 67% ical parties and organisa- Sunrise: 06:03 am tions have been demand- Sunset: 06:22 pm ing a CBI investigation,” Current Weather Conditions the statement said. Updated September 10, 2020 5:00 PM Continued on Page 3 VIJAYAWADA | FRIDAY | SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 vijayawada 02 Etching CM's name in the annals of revenue reforms hile introducing recall his observations in the The CM said: "We have posed Dharani web portal in the state, which was never the draft new past, when the Statewide TheChief Minister made a reference to launched Revenue Records will have data on two cate- done, not even in the Nizam WRevenue Act in Household Survey was certain previous attempts to bring in land rectification and updating gories of land namely,agricul- state. Total survey of the form of two Bills namely, launched and later when a reforms. It started under the rule of Sher program in a big way,though ture and non-agriculture Telangana state would be the Telangana Rights in Land gigantic Land Records rectifi- it had a lull halfway through lands. With one click one can undertaken. Along with the and Pattadar Passbooks Bill cation, updating and purifica- Shah Suri and in Emperor Akbar's period due to polls only to be restart- know the category of land. survey, coordinates for each 2020 and the Telangana tion programme was initiated Todar Mal brought in the land reforms. ed after a gap. For the past 3 The entire land transaction survey number with longitude Abolition of the Posts of and later carried out success- Survey of lands began under Sher Shah to 4 months, I, along with the can be done within five to ten- and latitudes will be fixed". Village Revenue Officers Bill fully. The CM observed that it Chief Secretary, Law minutes; registration, muta- With the new Revenue Act 2020in the state Legislative was only after 80 long years Suri; such a practice was not there before Secretary, senior CMO offi- tion and final documents of in place, it is no exaggeration Assembly on that such a unique survey was cials, others have done an the land would be ready.