Naidu to turn Vizag into another Hyderabad
VISAKHAPATNAM: The AP government is keen to make Visakhapatnam, a city on a fast-track development, into an information technology hub and develop it as a rival to Hyderabad.
The government has already set the ball rolling by inviting several IT companies to invest in the port city. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said in a tweet: 'Vizag would be the future IT hub of AP. SEZ for Wipro, 10 acres for Tech Mahindra and 13 acres for Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research. It will create 13,000 jobs (direct) and 10,000 jobs (indirect).'
Information Minister Palle Raghunath Reddy, who visited IT SEZ at Madhurawada, in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday said: 'As many as 400 IT companies are showing keen interest to invest. We want to develop Visakhapatnam as the IT hub for the state. The state would come out with an industry-friendly IT policy soon. Under this policy, special package of incentives would be offered to the companies which come forward to invest here.'
Raghunmath Reddy visited various IT companies in Madhurawada SEZ in Visakhapatnam accompanied by Education Minister G Srinivasa Rao.
Reddy said: 'To make things easy for the investors, an exclusive IT officer would be stationed in Visakhapatnam. There would also be an officer of the rank of executive director to co-ordinate with companies involved in various businesses in the IT sector.'
The Minister said the government would be introducing the single window scheme to issue all the necessary permissions through one document for setting up the companies.
To a request from representatives of one company, the Minister asked the GVMC to provide streetlights and drinking water in the SEZ within a fortnight.
However, the Minister said that a majority of the companies have not yet launched their units in the SEZ. The Minister also sounded a warning to those companies which have been allotted land in the IT SEZ but which have not yet set up their units.
News Posted: 16 July, 2014
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