Visakhapatnam :

The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has appointed Nagpur consultancy firm — aXYKno Consultancy — to prepare a vision document for Visakhapatnam, GVMC commissioner MV Satyanarayana said here on Tuesday.

Earlier, during an in-camera meeting with the consultancy firm late on Monday evening, the civic chief asked the firm to prepare the document considering the recently finalized Vizag city development plan, as part of which projects worth Rs 8,000 crore have been proposed.

He told them to prepare a long-term and short-term vision document taking into account the available land use pattern in the city. “The short term vision plan should be prepared for a period of five years for the core area of the city, extended to around 150-200 sq km, considering the important immediate developmental projects post division,in the fields of education, health, sanitation, traffic and transportation” Satyanarayana told them.

The consultants were told that in the long-run, a 10-year vision plan should include development projects in an extended area of 630 sq km and comprise housing, environment, industry and tourism sectors considering the proposed PCPIR and Vizag-Kakinada Transit Corridor.

The state municipal administration minister is scheduled to visit the city in the next one week, he said.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Visakhapatnam / TNN / July 02nd, 2014