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New Andhra Pradesh capital | A capital spreads its wings

From infrastructure and exports to IT and tech, Visakhapatnam is dashing at the expansion trail, spurred by way of the chance of being Andhra Pradesh’s govt capital

ISSUE DATE: Jul 24, 2023 | UPDATED: Jul 14, 2023 16:43 IST

FACING THE WORLD: The Vizag skyline (Picture: AFP)

Visakhapatnam is headed for a brand new tryst with future. Town—which has developed extra accidentally than by way of des­­ign, wedged between the Bay of Ben­gal and hills at the different facet—used to be declared the brand new capital this January as a part of the state govt’s tri-capital plan. Leader Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy introduced in March that Visakhapatnam would be the exe­cutive capital of Andhra Pradesh from September, with the state’s management transferring its headquarters from Amaravati, which serves as the present capital. On July 11, the Splendid Court docket do away with the listening to towards the tri-capital plan till December, which would possibly pressure the CM to defer his strikes to early 2024.

Revealed Through:

Arindam Mukherjee

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Jul 14, 2023