Chandrababu team for US today
Vijayawada, May.4: A high-level delegation, led Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu, has left for the United States of America to open up investment opportunities in Andhra Pradesh.
The long-awaited trip is highly significant as the Chief Minister would meet the ‘who’s who’ in the fields of information technology, agriculture, education and so on. Not just that, the State of Andhra Pradesh will sign ‘sister-state relations’ with the States of California, Iowa and Illinois to enable closer interactions and investments in a wide range of sectors.
The California State, which shares many similarities with Andhra Pradesh, is a power house of information technology and through the proposed agreement; Andhra Pradesh believes that it can share the best practices in areas of IT, agriculture and innovation. Similarly, the sister-state agreement with Iowa will facilitate technology sharing in the field of agriculture as Iowa is the leading State in agricultural research in the USA. The government was also keen on enabling transfer of smart technologies with the government of Illinois.
It is a matter of pride that on May 8 in California, the Chief Minister would receive the 2017 US-India Business Council’s “Transformative Chief Minister Award”, which would be attended by 150 senior leaders of the U.S. The award was being bestowed upon him for advancing the U.S-India partnership at the State level. The Chief Minister is scheduled to hold several meetings with a number of well known CEOs, besides making field visits to Apple, Google, CISCO, Oracle and many other campuses in the Silicon Valley.
Naidu, along with the Governor of California, will grace the occasion of the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on global climate between the Governments of Andhra Pradesh and California State. Chandrababu Naidu will also address the Pravasi Telugu populace on two different occasions to exhort them to contribute their mite in the development of Andhra Pradesh. On the penultimate day of the visit, the Chief Minister would attend a dinner meeting being hosted by John Chambers, Executive Chairman, CISCO at his residence.
On the last day of his visit, Naidu would hold a breakfast meeting with the representatives of the Stanford University and also visit the Franklin Templeton Office. He will be in US till May 11.
