Hyderabad: Chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was all business in his trip to Japan. He met Japanese premier Shinzo Abe and invited him to the foundation stone laying ceremony for the construction of the capital city, Amaravati.
In a meeting with the COO of Motorcycle Operations, Shinji Aoyama, Honda Motor Co, Naidu gave an overview of the opportunities for auto mobile sector in Andhra and said his government's automobile policy would allow ancillary units to function from the State and support the mother unit. Naidu also met executives of JGC Corporation which operates in petroleum, power, water, energy and industrial parks sectors, and invited the company to explore the possibility of establishing a petro-chemical corridor in the State while pointing to the presence of huge gas and energy reserves in the Krishna-Godavari basin.
An MoU was also signed between Andhra Pradesh Technology Services (APTS) Limited and National Electronics Corporation (NEC) for implementing a Safe-city project in Tirupati . It also seeks to help the AP Government to get Japanese financial assistance and establish a Centre of Excellence (CoE) to undertake research capacity building and consultancy relating to safe cities.
