Andhra Pradesh Courts Global Companies with Manufacturing and Tech Pitch

Andhra Pradesh is making a concerted effort to attract global companies in various sectors, including electronics, data centres, healthcare, fintech, enterprise technology, agrochemicals, and clean energy. Minister for HRD, IT, and Electronics Nara Lokesh has been meeting with corporate leaders in New Delhi to pitch the state as a manufacturing and technology base.

Lokesh urged Vivo India to establish a mobile component manufacturing facility in Tirupati and develop a dedicated component manufacturing park for its supplier ecosystem. He also proposed a supply-chain meeting with the state government to bring Vivo's vendors and subsidiaries into the state. Vivo India president Arjit Sen said the proposals would be discussed with the company's senior leadership.

The state is also seeking to build a complete data-centre ecosystem, with Lokesh proposing a manufacturing facility for Unified Computing System (UCS) servers, switches, and routers by Cisco Systems in AP, as well as an engineering centre or Global Capability Centre (GCC) in Visakhapatnam. Healthcare manufacturing was another focus, with Lokesh inviting Abbott to establish medical-device or diagnostics manufacturing units at the Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone (AMTZ) or Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC).