Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu met Secretary of State for International Development (UK Minister) Priti Patel at London on Wednesday. The Chief Minister urged her to help Andhra Pradesh by extending best technologies available in Europe and UK. He also recalled that UK helped in the past too in setting up of Centre for Good Governance and Human Resources Development (HRD) Institute when served as Chief Minister of combined Andhra Pradesh. Responding to it, Ms. Patel assured him of extending all possible help.
UK based Santander Bank India desk Director Edward Dixon, at another meeting, told the Chief Minister that Santander Bank would extend financial assistance to exporters from Andhra Pradesh and importers from UK. The bank would act as liaison between the exporters and importers. The bank representatives responded positively to Mr. Naidu’s request to extend their cooperation in developing Fintech valley.
At another meeting, Ajay Rajan Gupta of Indo-UK Institute of Health told the Chief Minister that Health City works would commence at Amaravati from December this year. Larsen and Toubro (L&T) was awarded the works and construction of buildings would complete by October 2018, he said.
In response to a proposal from Mr. Naidu to set up a manufacturing unit in Andhra Pradesh, Telematic Biomedical Services (TBS) Group General Manager (Foreign Affairs) Nicola Pangher assured him that the TBS representatives would hold discussions with AP Economic Development Board (EDB).
The Chief Minister has invited natural sweetener manufacturing company, Pure Circle, to take up plantation in Andhra Pradesh. The company has orchards in South America, East Africa and China and is into manufacturing of natural sweetener as alternative to sugar. He said that a pilot project can be taken up in A.P. after studying the soil conditions etc. Pure Circle CEO Magomet Malsagov told him a team would visit A.P. in the first week of November to study the prospects.