Vijayawada City Administration is getting ready for development of the riverfront by modernising Durga Ghat and other ghats, on the banks of Krishna river, and to turn it into a permanent tourist and recreational spot.

Chinese conglomerate Guizhou International Investment Corporation (GIIC) has been entrusted the task of designing the riverfront. City administration is going to construct few more ghats, but make them more permanent and a tourist attraction of the city.

GICC is asked to design the beautification of canals in Vijayawada in accordance with Blue-Green concept.

Meanwhile many activities are going to happened in the city for Pushkarams. Rs.8 crore is released for renovation of Tummalapalli Kalakhestram. 55 roads and other infrastructure facilities would be developed.

Krishna District Collector Babu A, inspected the works of new terminal works and asked to complete all the works by Krishna Pushkaramas.

The terminal is being developed with an outlay of Rs. 137 crore along with other amenities. It will have a capacity to handle about 500 passengers in an hour, 250 departing and 250 arriving. The airport terminal building will be spread over 9,520 sq.m. and located on a 540-acre site.

The Malaysian government is ready to join hands with the Andhra Pradesh government in promoting tourism in the State. The two governments would invest in the development of sea ports, airports, highways and urban development. A delegation of the Malaysian government-led by its Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai met the Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday.

Naidu briefs the Malaysian delegation on tapping tourism potential around the 975-km long coastline in AP. Malaysian Minister Lai says they are willing to join hands with the State in developing airports, seaports and highways

The Chief Minister had briefed the delegation of the tourism opportunities in the State and said that 975 km long coastline is seen as an advantage and wanted the Malaysian delegation to make use of it to promote tourism. Naidu further said that the government had proposed new capital city, Amaravati, as a global city.

The Malaysian Minister Lai thanked the Chief Minister for inviting them to join hands with the government in promoting tourism. He said that their government was interested in developing airports, seaports, highways and urban areas providing basic infrastructure. The investment on highways would provide better connectivity to the rural areas from the district headquarters.

Vijayawada Based carrier Air Costa has started a new service from today. The new fleet of service E-190 jet have a capacity of 110-seater. It will now operate this daily service from Vijayawada to Hyderabad and also connect to Bangalore and Coimbatore from the same date.

With the launch of these new services, Gananvaram Airport will now operate 15 daily flights connecting nine destinations.

Air Costa is run by Vijayawada-based real estate and renewable energy company LEPL