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

A list of major projects and institutions to be set up outside the proposed capital city

BS Reporter Hyderabad
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

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First Published: Sep 04 2014 | 5:01 PM IST

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