Journalists are pushing for action on the long-pending Amaravati housing project

Members of the Amaravati Journalist Housing Association at a meeting held in Vijayawada on Sunday. | Photo credit: HANDOUT

Journalists representing both print and electronic media have appealed to Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to immediately start the long-standing journalist housing project in Amaravati.

At a meeting organized by Amaravati Journalists Housing Society on Sunday, Secretary P. Naga Srinivasa Rao and others recalled that the previous TDP government had allotted 30 acres to the society through GO Ms. No. 67 (2019). The land was later handed back to the government following an agreement with the CRDA to construct multi-storey flats for journalists. Subsequently, the government issued GO Ms. No. 107 in which it proposed apartments in four categories based on the HappyNest model. As HappyNest and several other housing projects are currently under construction in Amaravati, journalists unanimously urged the government to immediately start a housing project for journalists as well.

Housing Society director Chava Ravi pointed out that while the government was building houses for the poor, HappyNest flats for the middle and upper middle class, APNRT Icon projects for NRIs and also allotted homes to IAS and IPS officers, journalists should also get similar attention.

Published – 05 Jul 2026 22:45 IST