KURNOOL: Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday announced that the steel plant in Kadapa district would commence production by 2028.
Addressing a public meeting at Jonnagiri, he said the foundation for the Rayalaseema Steel Plant would be laid on July 3 at Sunnapurallapalle in Jammalamadugu constituency.
Andhra Pradesh, he noted, is not only the nation’s food bowl but also a treasure trove of minerals. The state is rich in natural resources. There is no crop that cannot be grown and no mineral that is not found in this geographical region.
Naidu listed key resources including barytes in Mangampeta, limestone in Kadapa, uranium deposits and bauxite in the Visakhapatnam agency. He also referred to the famous galaxy granite in Chimakurthy, green granite in Kuppam and blue granite in Srikakulam.
Other resources include mica in Gudur, silica in Nellore, beach sand along the north coastal belt, iron ore in Anantapur and Kadapa districts, and gas and petroleum reserves in the Krishna Godavari basin.
The Chief Minister said the government was promoting value-addition industries to make effective use of these resources. The cement and steel industries were increasingly choosing Andhra Pradesh, and this would generate large employment opportunities for local youth.
Naidu said the state had emerged as a model for speed of doing business, attracting investors from near and far. The previous government, he said, drove industries away by corrupt practices, but under the present government, industrialists were lining up to invest in the state.
He said every district in Rayalaseema was being developed with a strong industrial base. Major investments were coming into sectors such as space, aerospace, defence, electronics, automobiles, steel, cement and clean energy.
The CM also announced that the country’s largest drone city would be set up in Kurnool district and that the Orvakal industrial node was being developed rapidly.
He reiterated plans to bring a high court bench to Kurnool.
Referring to industrial progress in other parts of the region, Naidu said that while Kia Motors had come to Anantapur, a fifth-generation fighter jet project was now being introduced there. The Kopparthi industrial node in Kadapa district was being developed and a Royal Enfield manufacturing unit had been established in Tirupati.
Among those who attended the meeting along with Naidu were ministers Nimmala Ramanaidu, Kollu Ravindra, TG Bharath, CM’s programme coordinator Pendurthi Venkatesh, Kurnool MP Bastipati Nagaraju, MLC BT Naidu, principal secretary Mukesh Meena, DIG Koya Praveen, collector Siri, SP Vikrant Patil, joint collector Noorul Khamar and MLA Shyam Babu, among others.
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