Development of IFFCO Kisan SEZ will provide 30,000 direct, 40,000 indirect jobs: Nellore Collector

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Nellore MP Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy with IFFCO Chairman Dileep Sanghani astatine  New Delhi aboriginal  this year, seeking improvement  of the IFFCO SEZ successful  SPSR Nellore district.

Nellore MP Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy with IFFCO Chairman Dileep Sanghani astatine New Delhi aboriginal this year, seeking improvement of the IFFCO SEZ successful SPSR Nellore district. | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT

All eyes are fixed connected the IFFCO Kisan SEZ (IKSEZ), dispersed crossed 2,776 acres successful Nellore district, pursuing the State Cabinet’s caller support to make infrastructure successful the portion with an concern of ₹870 crore.

The determination has rekindled hopes of concern revival successful the region, which has a immense imaginable to pat the agrarian marketplace by attracting industries and arsenic good supply section employment.

Part of the Visakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor (VCIC), the multi-product Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is dispersed crossed 1,900 acres and the Domestic Tariff Zone (DTZ) spans 877 acres, which is good connected with railway network, road web (NH 16), seaport and airport.

According to District Collector Himanshu Shukla, the improvement of the SEZ volition supply 30,000 nonstop and 40,000 indirect jobs, too creating 29,400 caller jobs, if much industries acceptable up base. Three large firms person already shown involvement to found units and signed MoUs, portion galore much are successful the pipeline, according to sources.

It whitethorn beryllium recalled that Nellore MP Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy had met the Indian Farmers Fertilisers Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) Chairman Dileep Sanghani and the past Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Udai Shanker Awasthi a mates of times this twelvemonth to moot concern improvement successful the region.

Currently, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and Hindustan Coco Cola Beverages (HCCB) Limited person their plants here.

However, for reasons unknown, the fig of concern units stay grossly incommensurate to the availability of facilities similar compound wall, uninterrupted powerfulness supply, sewage attraction plant, tempest h2o drains, interior roads and security.

The latest connection to make amenities with an outlay of ₹870 crore is expected to capable the spread and pave the mode for accelerated industrialisation successful the Nellore-Kavali belt.

Published - December 16, 2025 06:56 p.m. IST

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