Telugu Desam Party nationwide spokesman Ok. Pattabhi Ram
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) nationwide spokesman Ok. Pattabhi Ram held Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy accountable for the sordid state of affairs in the erstwhile Gangavaram port and Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP).
The Gangavaram port was in dire straits because of the negligence of the State authorities and as its operations allegedly got here to a standstill, the coking coal provide to VSP was disrupted, he alleged. The consequence was a drastic fall in metal manufacturing.
VSP used to pay a cargo dealing with cost of ₹270 per ton when the Gangavaram port was owned by DVS Raju Consortium and it went as much as ₹350 after the port was offered off to the Adani Group, Mr. Pattabhi Ram mentioned.
Addressing a press convention at the TDP workplace on Sunday, Mr. Pattabhi Ram mentioned the each day metal output at the VSP was between 14,000 tons and 15,000 tons beforehand but it surely got here right down to about 4,000 tons. Only one in every of the three blast furnaces have been operational now, he added.
The Gangavaram port was offered to Adani Group for commissions and the State authorities had thereafter fully uncared for it. The demand of staff, on whose lands the Gangavaram port was constructed, for increased wages and different advantages that have been legitimately because of them have been intentionally neglected, the TDP nationwide spokesman alleged.
This port was making good earnings in the previous but it surely was now on the brink of closure because of a number of things. The YSR Congress Party authorities was to be largely blamed for it, Mr. Pattabhi Ram alleged.
