AP chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who has initiated a nation-wide debate on the necessity of population growth stressing the need for increasing fertility rate, has said that both population and technology are needed to reach our air of eradicating poverty.
Participating as the chief guest in the “National Conclave on Deep Tech Innovation” conference led by the Global Forum for Sustainable Transformation in Visakhapatnam, he said once we thought that there would be losses due to high population, but now it is our asset. He said that all countries in the world are facing the problem of low population.
“Deep technology will create new employment opportunities,” Naidu asserted, while also revealing plans to launch new policies to boost the tourism sector. He acknowledged the growing significance of drones in various sectors and insisted on interlinking rivers to address water shortages.
Recalling his tenure starting in 1995, CM Naidu discussed his efforts in developing Hydera’s IT sector, mentioning the establishment of a high-tech city through a public-private partnership (PPP) model. He announced the introduction of a new P4 model of collaboration, aiming to enhance government-private partnerships for future projects.
Naidu recalled that one in every four IT professionals is an Indian and said that we are moving forward with the slogan “Four P”. He said that Visakhapatnam city is the knowledge hub of the future and that we are providing safe drinking water to the people of Andhra Pradesh, water for agriculture and industries. He called for everyone to join hands to make Andhra Pradesh a knowledge hub.
Chandrababu Naidu said that they are working with the goal of increasing GDP by 15%, and that if the country’s GDP is 8 percent, Andhra Pradesh has developed by 8.7 percent. He said that they are going with the slogan of Zero Budget Natural Farming Development.
He revealed that there is a thousand kilometers of coastline for AP and that they have focused a lot on sea transport. He said that the logistic cargo is only 14%. Naidu recalled that AP was the first to bring electricity reforms and that the state has achieved good development in the power sector.
He also revealed that green hydrogen will soon be launched from our state. On this occasion, CM Chandrababu Naidu launched two books at the Visakhapatnam Deep Tech Conference, Swarnandhra Transformation India to Developed India and AI for Every One.
