MEXICO: The State government’s decision to develop a chain of minor ports all along the 974-km coastline is aimed at giving a push to port-led activity by involving BOT investors in a big way.
The Cabinet approved the draft policy and an exercise would be launched to finalise the policy on how to remove hurdles in acquisition of land, leasing procedures, giving incentives and implementation of rehabilitation and resettlement, Minister for HRD Ganta Srinivasa Rao told The Hindu on Tuesday.
Mr. Rao, who was Minister for Ports in the government headed by Kiran Kumar Reddy, said the government wanted to make AP a model State in the development of minor ports.
Five industrial clusters on the coast and the establishment of Maritime Board to speed up decision-making for port-led development were also cleared by the Cabinet.