VIZAG matters - Sohan Hatangadi's Blog

Please click on this link to read about how we met Pinnai Dora. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/visakhapatnam/How-we-met-Pinnai-Dora/articleshow/47660558.cms Or read it here: It was the winter of 1972. Late that afternoon, on an impulse, four of us decided to jump on our two bikes and head up to Lambasinghi. The road was bad and we arrived at the Lambasinghi ghat foothills only by nightfall. It was too dark and bike lights were lousy those days so we decided to stop for the night. We parked our bikes in a field and fortified with swigs of dark stuff and ensconced in leather jackets and thick jeans, we snuggled into a haystack to spend the night. We slept deeply and early next morning we looked around to discover that we were near a hamlet with a few huts and a tiffin shack. There are certain duties that are to be performed in the morning, therefore we asked for a chambu of water and trundled off into yonder fields to fertilize the soil. Greatly refreshed after ou...

First please read the article in The Hindu with headline: " Anrak in talks with Glencore to source bauxite ore?"  at the following link. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/article2760124.ece If APMDC mines Jerrala and supply Bauxite to Anrak here is what we can expect. TRANSPORTATION NIGHTMARE The ANRAK website has this sentence at the end of it:  "A newly laid road is envisaged which will be traveling for 15 km in forest land starting from Jerrela village to the state highway near Pederu. From there it is connected to NH5 for onward movement to the proposed plant location." I could not figure out how they will reach Makavaripalem from Chintapalle via Paderu and NH5. This is like going to Delhi from Mumbai via Chennai. Instead, it is obvious that they will come down via Lambasinghi and take a left before  Narasipatnam. I understand that they have already started making a road diagonally from a few kms before ...