‘A landmark for Bapatla’: Collector hails The Hindu’s full-page feature on the district’s beach tourism

Bapatla District Collector V. Vinod Kumar connected Saturday (June 13, 2026) described the work of a full-page ‘Andhra Pradesh In Focus’ diagnostic connected the district’s tourism imaginable successful The Hindu arsenic a landmark infinitesimal for Bapatla, saying the designation reflected the accelerated maturation of the assemblage and the expanding popularity of the territory among visitors.

Referring to the communicative published successful The Hindu connected June 13, 2026, nether the header “Sun and Sand: Bapatla Beckons Tourists with Beach Tourism”, the Collector said it was a peculiar time for the district. Addressing a gathering astatine a Yogandhra event, helium noted that it was the archetypal clip a nationalist English regular had carried a full-page diagnostic exclusively connected Bapatla district, focusing connected its tourism assets, including the Suryalanka and Chirala beaches, and emerging concern opportunities.

Mr. Vinod Kumar said tourer footfall had accrued importantly implicit the past 2 months, attributing the emergence to the assurance visitors had developed successful the information and information arrangements astatine Suryalanka Beach. He highlighted the government’s sustained efforts to beforehand tourism and amended infrastructure successful the district.

“The clip is ripe to witnesser tourism-led improvement successful Bapatla,” helium said, adding that authorities departments, section communities, media organisations and entrepreneurs should enactment unneurotic to further fortify the sector.

The Collector said crores of rupees were being spent connected processing Suryalanka, Chirala and different beaches successful the territory into charismatic tourism destinations. Special accent was being laid connected ensuring the information of women and children, with nonrecreational swimmers and constabulary unit deployed to forestall drowning and prevention lives.

He said the maturation of tourism would make caller concern opportunities, heighten per capita income and lend to the wide economical improvement of the district. The expanding value of tourism, helium added, had besides led to a emergence successful onshore values successful caller times, reflecting increasing capitalist involvement successful Bapatla’s coastal belt.