Vizag to get new airport, metro; Petro varsity in East Godawari

Andhra Pradesh is all set to reinvent itself after Telanagana was carved out as a separate state. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has said that the state's new capital will come up around Vijayawada. Here is a list of major projects and institutions to be set up outside the proposed capital city

Visakhapatnam: International airport, Metro rail, IIM, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Mega IT hub, new railway zone, electronics manufacturing hub, innovation and incubation hub and Gangavarm LNG Terminal

Srikakulam: New industrial city, Bhavanapadu and Kalingapatnam ports, new airport, School of Planning and Architecture, tourism circuits, open university.

Vijzianagaram: Greenfield airport, industrial city, tribal university, electronics hardware part, port, music and fine arts academy;

East Godawari district: Petroleum University, port, electronics hardware part, Telugu Unversity, LNG terminal, ship building unit;

West Godawari: National Institute of Technology (NIT), coal exploration, horticulture research centre.

Krishna district: Upgradation of the existing airport into an international airport facility, oil refinery and cracker unit, Machilipatnam port, VGTM (Vijajayawada-Gunture-Tenali-Mangalagiri) Metrorail, agri processing and textile parks

Guntur District: VGTM Metrorail, agriculture university, AIIMS, National Institute of Disaster Management, airport;

Prakasham: Donakonda industrial city, University of Mines and Minerals Sciences, airport, national manufacturing investment region;

Nellore: Automobile hub, airport, institute of hotel management, marine institute

Chittoor: Tirupati international airport, Kuppam airport, IIT, IT hub and Metrorail

Kadapa: Steel Plant, mineral based industries

Anantapur: Horticulture hub, Central University, satellite centre of AIIMs, electronics and hardware cluster

Kurnool: new airport, textile and cement clusters, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Nuclear Fuel Complex