On January 21 this year, at a speech in the General Electric Plant in Schenectady, New York, American President Barack Obama brought to the world’s notice a small sleepy town called Samalkot in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari district where electricity-generating turbines assembled in Schenectady were being exported. The president cited that the turbines were being procured for a power plant in Samalkot, a town 10 km from Kakinada, which has become a major industrial hub after the discovery of gas reserves in the Krishna-Godavari basin.

<p><table width='100%' border=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 18px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #0253B7;'><B>G Kishan Reddy:</B> Signals from Konaseema</td></tr><tr><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11px; '>The 

<b>G Kishan Reddy:</b> Signals from Konaseema

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