Vizag
The price of sand, which is an important construction material is skyrocketing with an increase of 150% during the last four months. This alarming rise has been reported in the city of Visakhapatnam. Soon after the Andhra Pradesh state government announced its sand policy, there witnessed a sudden hike in price of sand. This is [...] Continue Reading »
District collector N Yuvaraj on Wednesday inspected the Andhra Bank School of Management building, which was recently constructed on the Andhra University campus, as a likely venue for housing the Indian Institute of Management, Vizag. The collector went all round the 20,000 square feet building and inspected it thoroughly. According to AU authorities, a full-fledged [...] Continue Reading »
As the Vizag metro rail project gathers steam, most of the environmentalists in the city consider the upcoming project to be a bane rather than a boon. Though a few feel it would emerge as the best mode of eco-friendly future transport that would cut vehicular pollution by bringing down the number of vehicles on [...] Continue Reading »
Wipro Technologies, an IT giant, is planning to set up a special economic zone (SEZ) software development facility in Visakhapatnam. It is planned to be a seven-storied 1,000 employees facility. Currently, the company has a seven acre campus that is located on NH-16 opposite the Tech Mahindra facility at Satyam Junction. It houses 300 employees [...] Continue Reading »
It seems like garbage bins in Vizag are finding it difficult to hold all the garbage produced in the households. The city corporation is finding the solid waste management quiet difficult to manage. Now, the street dustbins have been replaced with new dumper bins. The new bins are filled with garbage taken from door to door [...] Continue Reading »
Salarpuria Sattva, a renowned real estate developer has acquired more land in Bangalore for future projects. The developer has acquired around 300 acres in Sarjapur and Whitefield area for development of projects. It has plans of developing nearly 30 million sq ft on the lands acquired. All types of developments ranging from residential complexes, apartments, [...] Continue Reading »
Visakhapatnam (Vizag) city will soon be welcoming Metro Rail project. Union minister has written a letter discussing same with the city MP. Also the central government has promised the citizens of the city to launch the metro at the earliest. Around 50 percent of the costs will be initiated as per the central government’s intention. [...] Continue Reading »
Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation is talk of the town due to bad collection of property tax and large debt this year. Apart from this, it is also facing problem in completing the projects in stipulated time under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The debt has also risen to Rs 130 crore and for [...] Continue Reading »
