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Vizag will emerge as global city
Impressed with the exhibits at the Maritme Exhibition Hall, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu told reporters that this was the beginning of Vizag becoming an international city.
Visakhapatnam: Impressed with the exhibits at the Maritme Exhibition Hall, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu told reporters that this was the beginning of Vizag becoming an international city.
Inaugurating the exhibition, organised in connection with the International Fleet Review here on Thursday, the Chief Minister said now there is a good scope for making the city a hub of defence production units. He reminded that the city has the advantage of having Eastern Naval Command which could facilitate and coordinate with the defence production units providing them good security.
“With the port led development on the cards and having Eastern Naval Command headquarters, Visakhapatnam will become the most strategic place in the Eastern Board,’’ the Chief Minister said.
Congratulating the GVMC Commissioner for winning Smart City challenges, the Chief Minister said that the US government team on Smart City would be visiting the city on February 12 and hold discussions with the local officials. “The roads are clean and beautiful and this is the beginning for the city to emerge as the international city,’’ the Chief Minister said.
Later, he, along with Chief of Naval Staff Admiral RK Dhowan, Flag Officer and Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Naval Command Vice-Admiral Satish Soni, Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister N Chinarajappa, Minister for HRD Ganta Srinivasa Rao, local MPs, MLAs and delegates of foreign navies visited various stalls put up on the occasion. In one of the stalls put by the ITDA, the Chief Minister and HRD Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao tasted Araku coffee.
