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The age old anchorage port here being given a face lift with development of roads at a cost of Rs 10 crore and construction of a passenger Jetty in full swing. The deep water port which is under private management is now equipped with another berth the seventh in series. While the anchorage port has handled 15 lakh metric tonnes of cargo, the deep water port handled 89 lakh metric tonnes ushering a new era in sea trade.
East Godavari District Collector H.Arun Kumar said that land for the container corporation was allotted for handling container cargo at the deep water port.
He said that Rajahmundry Airport was also being developed by extending the existing run way from 1750 meters to 3165 meters enabling it to operate big aircraft such as Boeing -739 and A-320. Referring to other developmental activities in the district, the Collector said it stood first in entire Andhra Pradesh in implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
As many as 1.39 Crore daily wage workers were provided with work executing 86,993 works spending Rs 367 Crore during this year, he added. The district headquarters city of Kakinada, he said, would soon going to have comprehensive drainage system with Rs 100 Crore of Amruth scheme and also with 14th Finance Commission funds. For the safety of the citizens a command control room equipped with 1220 CC TVs would soon be commissioned, he added.UNI XC-DP CS 1840
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