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Two metros, ₹22,507 crore, and a decade of waiting
Andhra Pradesh has cleared Phase I metro rail for Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada. Detailed project reports are with the Centre; trains would not run before 2029.
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Vizag Steel is profitable again. The privatisation question hasn't gone away.
RINL posted a ₹54 crore profit in January after a ₹11,440 crore central package and a return to full blast furnace operation.
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Pudimadaka: the ₹1.85 lakh crore hydrogen bet on Andhra's coast
The first hub under the National Green Hydrogen Mission is planned across 1,600 acres near Visakhapatnam, with 20 GW of renewable capacity behind it.
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India's first quantum computer is being installed in Amaravati
The Quantum Valley tech park launched in February under the ₹6,000 crore National Quantum Mission. IBM's system is due to be commissioned by September.
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Three ports, one deadline: Andhra's bid to add half its cargo capacity
Ramayapatnam, Machilipatnam and Mulapeta are targeted for completion by December 2026. Together they would lift the state's capacity from 195 to about 286 million tonnes.
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Bhogapuram opens, and north Andhra gets its own front door
The ₹4,700 crore greenfield airport cleared its aerodrome licence in July. Its real significance is what it does to Visakhapatnam's claim on investment.
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Google's $15 billion bet lands in Visakhapatnam
India's first gigawatt-scale data centre broke ground in April. For Andhra Pradesh, the question is how much of the promised employment is local and how much is transient.
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Polavaram at 76 per cent: the dam that has outlasted four governments
Two decades in, Andhra Pradesh's largest irrigation project is being rebuilt from a wall that failed. The stated deadline is October 2026; the working assumption is July 2027.
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Amaravati's second attempt: ₹57,821 crore of work, and a deadline problem
Construction across the capital region is running roughly twenty points behind schedule. The state has begun warning contractors to keep pace or step aside.
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Kopparthy, Orvakal, Krishnapatnam: the nodes meant to move industry inland
Three corridor nodes carry roughly ₹31,000 crore of anchor investment and a promise of jobs in districts that have never had them.
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Banakacherla: the water project that has put two Telugu states back in court
Andhra Pradesh wants to move surplus Godavari water to Rayalaseema. Telangana says the project is unapproved, and has gone to the Supreme Court.
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₹4.5 lakh crore for Rayalaseema: can investment follow a map?
Andhra Pradesh reports proposed investments across more than 275 projects in its driest and poorest region. Proposals are not plants.
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Andhra added 3,865 MW of renewables in one year. The target is 100 GW.
The state's energy plan runs to tens of gigawatts of solar, wind, pumped storage and batteries. Land, not technology, is the binding constraint.
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Andhra is counting its skills before it counts on them
A statewide skill census covering 3.5 crore people, and a deep-tech training programme targeting ten lakh learners. The idea is to stop guessing what the workforce can do.
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Andhra's highway network has more than doubled. The next test is the Amaravati ring road.
NHAI-managed national highways in the state grew from 4,000 km in 2014 to 8,700 km in 2025, with 29 new projects cleared last August.