Visakhapatnam: Internet will soon become a fundamental right of people in Andhra Pradesh with every household provided with Internet, WiFi, and television facility through fibre grid for just Rs 149 per month, IT and panchayat raj minister Nara Lokesh said here on Monday.
The minister, who attended FICCI women entrepreneurs’ meet here, noted that the state government was resolving issues through real time governance. He gave an example of Titli cyclone in this context and said that all the relief and restoration activity as well as payment of compensation was completed in 25 days.
On the overall development of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Lokesh said that Visakhapatnam was becoming an IT hub with the establishment of Fintech Valley while Rayalaseema districts would turn into a manufacturing hub with automobile majors like Kia Motors already set up their unit in Anantapur, the minister pointed out.
“Anantapur will have the world’s biggest automobile manufacturing facility and the first car of Kia will roll out in just 15 months,” Mr Lokesh declared.
Also, electric vehicles would be used on large scale while the biggest solar power project had already come up in Kurnool, he revealed.
“Thanks to technology, growth in agriculture could be achieved despite deficit rainfall. Though there was a 28.5 per cent deficit in rainfall in 2016, the state achieved 14 per cent growth and 25.6 per cent growth last year in spite of a 13.6 per cent deficit rainfall,” he recalled.
Mr Lokesh noted that women entrepreneurs had been playing a key role in the development of state and the government has come out with policies to encourage industrialists among them.
