Tourism a top priority sector, says Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu

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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu addressing the inaugural league   of the Collectors’ conference, astatine  the Secretariat connected  Wednesday.

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu addressing the inaugural league of the Collectors’ conference, astatine the Secretariat connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: HANDOUT

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has declared tourism and the instauration of hospitality infrastructure arsenic the State’s apical precedence sector.

Speaking astatine the inaugural of the two-day Collectors’ league astatine the Secretariat connected Wednesday, Mr. Naidu noted that projects similar Wonderla Amusement Park coming up successful Visakhapatnam and Imagicaa World successful Tirupati would beryllium game-changers successful the tourism sector, portion observing that its imaginable was mostly untapped.

Principal Secretary (Tourism) Ajay Jain informed the Chief Minister that during the caller CII Partnership Summit-2025, the Tourism Department had signed 209 MoUs worthy astir ₹30,000 crore crossed 26 districts, and it demonstrated wide involvement successful the improvement of tourism infrastructure passim the State.

Mr. Naidu told the officials of the Industries Department to instrumentality steps for excluding 82,000 acres of onshore belonging to the AP Industrial Infrastructure Corporation from Section 22 A of the Registration Act truthful that they could beryllium made disposable to the industries. He called for an enactment program to hone the skills of younker to assistance the authorities execute the employment procreation goals.

Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan told the Collectors to absorption connected improving roadworthy connectivity to the tribal hamlets arsenic it was a indispensable for development, and connected the implementation of Palle Pandugaprogramme.

He exhorted them to guarantee the transportation of national services successful alignment with the goals acceptable by the conjugation government, and to alteration the Gram Panchayats to make their ain revenues to trim their dependence connected devolution of funds by the State to immoderate extent.

Published - December 17, 2025 08:57 p.m. IST

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