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Andhrapradesh has 13 Districts, 656 Gram Panchayats, 12,858 villages and 18,858 settlements - having total population (as on date) about 55 million, in which about 37.5 million live in villages and settlements - where there are about 10 million people who struggle with less than Rs.10,000 percapita.

Temple or endowment institution property

Sri Raghurama Temple in Gollapalli near Nuzvid in Krishna district owns over 1,200 acres of farmland in a nearby hamlet Kothapalli. 

1. As many as 1,568 farmers are cultivating the entire land on lease.
2. In terestingly , 199 of them are Muslims, 
3. 204 farmers SCs 
4.  five tribals. 

Kanagala under Cherukupalle mandal in Guntur district about 300 acres of land belonging to Sri Venugopala Swamy Temple is being cultivated by Muslims. 

Traditionally temples in Andhra Pradesh which are now government controlled possess large tracts of land. Tenant farmers cultivate nearly three lakh acres of agriculture land in possession of various temples in the state and 30 per cent of them are Dalits. 

As per the GO, clause (f) of Rule 9 says, “No person professing a religion other than Hinduism is entitled to obtain lease either through tender ­cum­ public auction or otherwise.

The ancient Amaralingeswara temple at Amaravati gets Rs.22.48 crore by selling its land at Chennai. The Amaravati temple own 473 acres of lands in various areas of Tamil Nadu, but those lands were encroached in the last 70 years.

The endowments department fought toget back those lands but due to technical difficulties. The department proved 83 acres belong to Sadavarthi Satram of Amaralingeswara temple. The Amaralingeswara temple got Rs.22.48 crore due to auctioning of lands and the endowments department is planning to develop the facilities for devotees at the satram (choultry) and temple with the money.

According to the Amarlingeswara Swami temple priests, the then Jamindar Raja Vasireddy Venkatadri Naidu was the chief patron of the temple and his wife Venkatalakshmamma donated 471 acres of lands at Talambur on the way to Mahabalipuram of the then Madras to the choultry for maintenance purpose in the year 1907.

Further, she donated 74 acres of lands of Kogantivaripalem in Achampeta mandal of Guntur district. As the Chennai lands were encroached and there was no income after the formation of Andhra
Pradesh, the choultry was maintained on the income of Kogantivaripalem lands. The state government, endowments department and Peda Kurapadu MLA K.Sridhar put all efforts and succeeded to get back 83 acres of lands from the Tamil Nadu government on the basis of land records. But as the lands were in the clutches of encroachers who were refusing to vacate the lands, the endowments department decided to sell the lands and conducted auction at Chennai.

The lands were sold for Rs.22.44 crore during auction which was conducted in the presence of AP endowment joint commissioner, Krishnaji Rao.

`Hexit' (Exit from Hyderabad)

As power shifts from Hyderabad to Vijayawada, AP govt workers lives uprooted

June 27. That is the date by which 5000-odd employees of the Andhra government have to shift permanently from Hyderabad to Vijayawada. Another 15000 employees will shift in batches over the next two months.

Many are bidding tearful farewells to Hyderabad, where they have worked for more than a decade.

 On the 270 km long Hyderabad-Vijayawada National Highway to be more specific. 

 The shifting of the seat of power will cost Rs 5 crore. 

90 commissionerates and directorates, located in Hyderabad

the employees lakhs of files

over 70 lakh pages of official files have been scanned and transferred on the information highway.

1.3 lakh police weapons

11000 pieces of furniture 

 June 27 as it was deemed to be astrologically and numerologically (2 + 7 = 9, Naidu's lucky number) an auspicious date. One reason why Naidu was in no mood to accept any requests that time be given till October. 

 Team Andhra to bid a permanent goodbye to Hyderabad, the government employees will hope that they see a new dawn in the `sunrise state'.

ref:http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/power-shifts-hyderabad-vijayawada-ap-govt-workers-lives-uprooted-45471

“water guzzling polluting units”.

“There is nothing green about a golf course. It consumes a lot of water and chemical fertilizer six times more than what is required by a standard dry crop, which leads to pollution of groundwater and eutrophication of water bodies, leaving no chance for survival of fish. Use of pesticides, herbicides and biocides and exotic species of grass will result in loss of biodiversity,”

“an average golf course in a tropical country like Thailand needs 1,500 kg of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides per year, and uses much as 60,000 rural villagers do”. It means a clear loss of biodiversity.

 440 litres a day or double of what the inhabitants of an average 

Death certificates of 618 golf course superintendents by researchers at the University of Iowa’s College of Medicine showed an unusually high number of deaths from cancers, including brain cancer and non-Hodgin’s lymphoma. 

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/does-hyderabad-need-10-golf-courses/article7929048.ece

Mujra

Mujra is a form of dance originated by tawaif (courtesans) during the Mughal era which incorporated elements of the native classicalKathak dance onto music such as thumris and ghazals or poems of those from other Mughal cultures such as Bahadur Shah Zafar.^[1] Mujra was traditionally performed at mehfils and in special houses called kothas. During Mughal rule in the subcontinent, in places such asJaipur, the tradition of performing mujra was a family art and often passed down from mother to daughter amongst Muslim practitioners. The profession was a cross between art and exotic dance, with the performers often serving as courtesans amongst Mughal royalty or wealthy patrons.

'Mujra' is also the traditional way of greeting among Marathas.^[2] A slight bow, then flapping the right hand in front of the chest 3 times is the traditional mode of greeting/salutation with which the courtiers in the Maratha princely states greeted their Maharaja, Maharani, their children, and other members of the royal family.