Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu today met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and discussed the issue of the upcoming Med Tech Zone at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
Naidu, the Urban Development Minister said that the meeting was regarding the sanctioning of funds for the 270 acre project.
"Met FM Sri Arun Jaitley regarding sanction of funds for Andhra Med Tech Zone being established at Visakhapatnam," he said in a tweet.
Naidu, in another tweet, said that the project will promote Visakhapatnam as a medical devices manufacturing hub.
Andhra Med Tech Zone aims to emerge as a hub for medical device manufacturing. Once completed, it will put the country on the global map of high end medical equipment production, and is expected to make health care products affordable and accessible.
Naidu also tweeted that he met Jaitley along with Union ministers Ananth Kumar and Y S Chowdary as well as Andhra Pradesh Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas.
