More industries are stepping forward to invest in the Andhra Pradesh State, according to Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. The Chief Minister, while speaking to the members of the AP Assembly on Monday, claimed that certain Central Public Sector Undertakings had expressed interest in investing in AP. He has named a few businesses' names, including HPCL, ONGC, and BEL, and claimed that they have already begun working on their projects in the districts of Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Krishna, and Satya Sai. These projects, valued Rs 1, 06800 crores, he claimed, would be available for investment. According to CM Jagan, over 72,000 employment will be created with these projects. The AP CM compared the expansion of the industrial sector from the period of the former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's regime with that of the current three years of YSRCP while citing the reasons for more businesses opening up and investing in the state. Century Plywood, Sun Pharma, Birla, Adani, and Aditya