AP
Magazine June 2017 Key Points
1. ‘People First’ is an integrated
grievance redressal initiative. Under this people cold dial 1100 to register
complaints about government services and schemes.
2. Singapore based Ascendas-Singbridge
pvt.ltd and Sembcorp Development Ltd were awarded Rs.528 crore project by the
government of AP to act as the master developer for a start up area spanning
1,691 acres in Amaravati.
3. K.L Manjunath commission is
studying the living conditions of kapus in the state of AP.
4. AP is ranked 72nd in the world
Happiness index.
5. AP government won the national
award for spending Rs.4,424 crore in 2015-16 under MGNREGA.
6. Toll Free no.102 -> special call
centre for providing emergency services to pregnant women & infants.
7. AP CM Chandrababu Naidu was
conferred with an esteemed award ‘Transformative chief minister’ by US-India
Business Council.
8. AP State Disaster management Authority
the first in being able to predict thunderbolts 30 minutes before their
occurrence.
9. Vajrapath – an app, developed by a
group of 5 girls from Kuppam Engineering college, to detect lightening hit or
thunderbolts 30 minutes prior to the attack.
10. Jalavani, a call centre that is
aimed at solving problems of drinking water supply.
11. AP CM launched an app ‘Plantix’
that allows one to identify the variety of pest affecting the crop.
12. Banganpalli variety, of Mango is
grown in and around Banaganapalle, 70 kms south of Kurnool.
13. AP is the 3rd state with highest
number of top ranking clean cities or towns in the country.
14.
Under Swachh Survekohan 2017
Vizag – 3rd cleanest city in India
Tirupati
– 9th cleanest city in India
Vijayawada
– 19th cleanest city in India
15. AP IT Ministry handed over
permissions to set up R & D facilities, IT services and skill Development
centre in Vijayawada to HCL Technologies.
16.
A K Singhal IAS – New EO of TTD.
17. K.Durga Prasad IPS was appointed
as advisor to the Ministry of Home department, AP.
18. NTR Vidyonnati is n educational
scheme that envisages free coaching for civil services aspirants.
19. Under the Hospital Linen and
laundry service programme, clean and hygienic bed sheets and pillows covers
with colour coded lining strips would be supplied to all hospitals.
20.
Justice V.RamaSubramanian was appointed as chairman of AP Real Estate
Regulation and Development authority.