Vijayawada: In a marathon meeting on Wednesday, the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet took a series of landmark decisions spanning infrastructure, healthcare, energy and sports. To complete construction of 2.61 lakh houses by June 2026, the cabinet approved a government guarantee for AP-TIDCO to secure a ₹4,451 crore term-loan from HUDCO. The weekly meeting was presided over by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.In a major fillip to the North Andhra region, the cabinet approved the allotment of 9.04 acres in Yendada, Visakhapatnam, to the Hyderabad-based Asian Institute of Gastroenterology. The objective is to complete 2.61 lakh PMAY (U) houses by June 2026.The chief minister set an ambitious target to provide permanent housing to all eligible poor citizens by 2029, with 7.50 lakh new units planned.In a move to resolve farmers' Vastu concerns in Amaravati, the cabinet authorised APCRDA to cancel 112 "road-hit" plots and provide alternatives through a lottery, provided the plots haven't been mutated.The state’s renewable energy sector received a boost with land allotments for solar projects in Tadipatri, Galiveedu, and Gani. The project would be taken up in the name of Eco-Isle.The Polavaram Project has been allocated `247.12 crore for additional stone excavation at the ECRF dam site and ₹4.49 crore for navigation tunnel works.As for Tirumala, the cabinet approved senior-level promotions for medical staff in TTD hospitals and removed the discriminatory term "leprosy" from the SV Vedic University Act.On welfare, the cabinet enhanced the loan limit for APSBCL by ₹11,850 crore to fund SC/ST and BC welfare programmes.The cabinet gave its nod to the APCRDA commissioner to transfer the landless poor pension to a set of minor children, who lost both their parents in the Amaravati capital villages.