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Projects
Database: Andhra Pradesh
Fact File
Capital:
Hyderabad
Area:
2,75,068 sq. km
Population:
75,727,000
Andhra Pradesh
under the States’ reorganisation scheme was formed on 1st
November, 1956. It is the fourth largest
state in India by area and fifth largest by population. It has the
longest coastline (972km) in India and is gifted by a variety of
physiographic features like high hills and surging plains. Being the
largest producer of rice in the country it is considered to
be the rice bowl of India. It is also the leading producer of cash
crops like Tobacco, Groundnut, Chillies, Turmeric, Oilseeds, Cotton,
Sugar and Jute. It produces some of the finest varieties of mangoes,
grapes, guavas, sapotas, papayas and bananas, it is an
agriculturally-prosperous state. Telgu is the widely spoken all over
Andhra Pradesh.
Project
Investments
According to the
24th Quarterly Survey of Projects Investment conducted by
ProjectsToday, as of 30 September 2006, the state had 1,277 projects worth
Rs.1,33,035 crore in
various stages of planning and implementation.
The state was
among the top investment destinations with a overall ranking of 6th
in the country. The latest project implementation ratio observed for the state
was 52.6 per cent, higher than the national average of 44.0 per cent.
Top Ten Projects in Andhra
Pradesh
The Top Ten Projects currently underway in the State are:
| Promoter |
Project |
Industry |
|
Andhra
Pradesh Power Development Co. Ltd.
|
Krishnapatnam
Power
|
Thermal
Based Power
|
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Kakinada
Indian Oil LNG Consortium
|
LNG
Terminal (Krishnapatnam)
- Stage I
|
LNG
Storage & Distribution
|
|
Government
of Andhra Pradesh
|
Galeru
Nagari Sujala Sravanthi Irrigation
|
Irrigation
|
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Government
of Andhra Pradesh
|
Polavaram
Irrigation
|
Irrigation
|
|
Rashtriya
Ispat Nigam Ltd.
|
Finished
Steel (Visakhapatnam)
|
Finished
Steel
|
|
Government
of Andhra Pradesh
|
Srisailam
Left Branch Canal Irrigation
|
Irrigation
|
|
Hindustan
Petroleum Corpn. Ltd.
|
Visakhapatnam
Power
|
Liquid
Fuel Based Power
|
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BPL
Power Projects (AP) Ltd.
|
Ramagundam
Power
|
Coal/Lignite
Based Power
|
|
Government
of Andhra Pradesh
|
Godavari
Lift Irrigation Scheme
|
Irrigation
|
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Andhra
Pradesh Power Generation Corpn. Ltd.
|
Vijayawada
Power Stage IV
|
Coal/Lignite
Based Power
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