The Government of AP needs to rethink its Infrastructure strategy in the light of current state priority. Unless these are in line with state priorities, the strategies will not work and will perpetually be at cross purposes. The current direction taken by the state appears to point towards the development of rural infrastructure, such as irrigation facility and linkages. The paper attempts to assess the need for these linkages and evolve broad policies to be implemented by these strategies.

The purpose of this white paper is to outline the basic approach as to how the infrastructure strategy for AP should be executed. The salient features are as follows: Andhra Pradesh has got a very strong service base. Huge numbers of students get into elite institutions both in India and abroad, particularly in the Engineering stream. Having completed their technical courses, they then go for Management studies. Large numbers of these people are doing extremely well in places like the UK and USA. It takes a fraction of the cost required for industry and agriculture to accommodate them and create suitable enabling infrastructure, to attract this talent back to AP. They would set up independent IT business or persuade their majors to come to AP.

This would generate tremendous amount of employment among the youth. Stress also needs to be laid on infrastructure which would enable to get the highly productive Krishna-Godavari farmer to get this produce to the market place as fast as possible and get the best price possible for his goods. The necessary infrastructure required to be created are,As per the Industrial Policy and Strategy paper prepared for the same, New Industrial Policy 1995 of Government of Andhra Pradesh aims at an overall development of the state, which includesincreased investment in industries, both from inside and outside the state; faster implementation of the projects, successful running of the existing and new industries and improvement in the quality of life of the people of the state.

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