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VUDA chief vows to protect old jail site
Our Bureau
Visakhapatnam
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Feb. 16
MR P.S.N. Raju, Chairman of the Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (VUDA), who assumed charge recently, has assured the representatives of People for India that he would do everything possible to protect the decades-old trees on the old central jail site (28 acres) in the heart of the city.
The team of representatives was led by Prof K.V. Ramana, former Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University.
Prof Ramana apprised Mr Raju of the results of the "people's ballot" conducted by the forum.
According to the opinion poll, 76 per cent of the citizens favoured converting the old central jail site into a public garden and opposed the Government's move to set up an Imax cinema, food courts and other commercial complexes.
"I am unhappy that so many old trees are being axed on the jail site for widening roads and building commercial complexes," he reportedly told the forum members.
The members stressed the need to halt the ongoing work on the site and develop a huge garden there.
"Cubbon Park in Bangalore, Lodhi Garden in New Delhi and Public Gardens in Hyderabad are standing examples of the sagacity of the old urban planners. It will be ecologically disastrous to convert the old jail site into a commercial complex," Prof Ramana told the Chairman.
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