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Visakhapatnam orthoepy (help·info) (Telugu: విశాఖపట్టణం) (also Visakhapattanamu, shortened and anglicized: Visakha/Vizag or Vizagapatam/Vizag City) is a coastal, port town, frequently named "The Jewel of the East Coast", located in the Indian province of Andhra Pradesh, turn up on the eastern shore of India, draw close amongst the hills of the Eastern Ghats and human facing the Bay of Bengal to the east. It is the administrative homes office of Visakhapatnam District and is also place of the Eastern Naval Command of the Indian Navy.

Overview

The town of fateAerial position of Visakhapatnam port

Visakhapatnam is the 2nd biggest town of Andhra Pradesh with an area  of 550 km², it is mainly an industrial town, apart from being a tourist destination. It is known for its unspoilt beaches, nearby scenic Araku Valley and Borra coffee bars, the 11th-century Simhachalam temple and antediluvian Buddhist locations like Thotlakonda and Bavikonda distribute across the area .

Alternatively, the town sometimes goes by its currently largely defunct colonial British name, Waltair. During the colonial epoch, the town's hub was turn up at the Waltair railroad terminal, and that division of the town still goes by the name of Waltair. It is sometimes also referred to as the "City of Destiny".

The town is place to several province owned heavy industries, 1 of the most progressed steel constitutes and has 1 of the commonwealth's biggest ports and its oldest shipyard. It has the only natural harbor on the eastern seashore of India.

Name and history

third century BC Buddhist destroys of Thotlakonda

The town is stated to have inferred its name Visakhapatnam from the god Visakha' (the God of Valour); Patnam is the Telugu word for town.

Visakhapatnam or the location of Visakha, is named after the god of valiance, the 2nd boy of Lord Shiva. The other tale is that the beauty of the location was compared to the beauty of Sakhi Visakha. The fable is that Radha and Visakha were born on the same solar day and every bit beautiful. The town mortals believe that an Andhra male monarch, strike by the beauty, constructed a temple to pay obedience to his home god, Visakha.

The Epic town

The town has been bring up in the Indian epic poem Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata, as good as the woods of the Eastern Ghats where the 2 blood brother Rama and Lakshmana roamed in hunt of Sita, married woman of Lord Rama. According to the epic poem, Rama characteristic his armed forces of monkey adult male in the district with the aid of Hanuman and Jambavan. The monkey armed forces of Rama after overcome the devil King Ravana to demand dorsum his married woman Sita. An episode of Mahābhārata when Bheema assassination the devil Bakasura, was believed to have take place in the small town Uppalam, merely 25 land mile from the town.

Buddhist might

The religious Hindu textual matters bring up that the district of Visakhapatnam in the fifth century BC was division of the vast Kalinga district which continued up to the Godavari River. The relics constitute in the area  also turn up the being of a Buddhist imperium in the district. Kalinga subsequently lost the district to King Ashoka in the bloodiest fight of the clip which moved him to cover Buddhism.

Later history

The district of Viskahapatnam then come up under the Andhra swayers of Vengi. Then Chalukyas, Pallavas, and the Reddy male monarch governed over the placid district. The Chola male monarch constructed the temples in the town in 11-12 century AD as constituted by archaeological determinations. The Mughals governed this area  under the Hyderabad Nizam in the late 15th and early 16th century. European merchandisers from France, Holland and the East India Company used this natural port to export baccy, tusk, muslin and other textile merchandises.

Local fable provinces that an Andhra male monarch while on his fashion to Benares, rested there and was so transported with the curve beauty of the location, that he say a temple to be built in honour of his home god, Visakha. Archaeological beginning nevertheless bring out that the temple was maybe constructed between the eleventh and twelfth centuries by the Cholas. A shipping merchandiser, Sankarayya Chetty, constructed 1 of the mandapams (pillared hallways) of the temple. Although it no longer is (it may have been wash out approximately a century yr ago by a cyclonal violent storm), elderly inhabitants of Vizag talk of sees to the ancient shrine by their grandparents. Noted writer Ganapatiraju Atchuta Rama Raju negated this.

In the 18th century, Visakhapatnam was division of the Northern Circars, a district consisting Coastal Andhra and southern costal Orissa that was ab initio under French command and afterward the British. Visakhapatnam got a land in the Madras Presidency of British India. in September 1804, British and French squadrons struggled the naval Battle of Vizagapatam off the harbor. After India's independency it was the largest land in the state and was afterwards split up into the 3 lands of Srikakulam, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam.

It is also named as Vizag.

The City

The City overlooking the Beach Road

From being a little fishing small town in the twentieth century, Visakhapatnam has turned into an industrial hub. Its saga get down with the pursuit of the British to encounter a suitable port that is able to assist the back country possessing rich mineral wealthiness. Unlike the western seashore of India, the east seashore has few undulations to characteristic a natural harbour. Their pursuance finished with Vizag, the most protected natural harbor in Asia. They set about construction the seaport in 1927 and in 1933 it was opened to traffic. One more eminent milepost is the launch of the Scindia Steam Navigation Co., subsequently known as Hindustan Shipyard Ltd in 1940. With the building of the K.K. line linking the iron ore mines of Bailadila in M.P. (present solar day Chattisgarh), its importance turned. In the 1950s and 1960s the authority and the private sector found big scale basic industries like Bharat Heavy Plates and Vessels (B.H.P.V.), Hindustan Zinc Ltd., Caltex petroleum refinery (after get by authority as H.P.C.L.), Coromandel fertilisers, and Andhra Polymers (currently LG Polymers). The 1980s saw a major development with the development of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and other leading industries. Economic liberalisation in the 1990s conveyed a modest development to the town but not as much as it did to Hyderabad. However, some industries spring up like Rain Calcining Ltd., enlargement of HPCL, launch of Vizag Export Processing Zone, and the Simhadri Thermal Power constitute of N.T.P.C. Visakhapatnam was declared 1 of 10 fastest turning towns of the  world in a recent survey dealt by the United Nations.

Ramakrishna Mission Near RK Beach

Due to the presence of the Eastern Naval Command, Steel Plant and H.P.C.L., the town has been the place to someones from different divisions of the state and due to this the town has a widely distributed nature.

The town's briny commercial and shopping mall are turn up in the Dwarakanagar-R.T.C. complex area  and Jagadamda Junction area . Since 2000, the Dwarakanagar-R.T.C. complex area  has transformed into a commercial hub with new centering and composites originate within a r of 2-3 kilometres. The town is place to many 5 star hotels such as Taj group, ITC-WelcomGroup and Park Hotels.

There has been a move up in the real estate monetary values ascribed to the Telangana move for a separate Telangana province, fueling conjecture that Visakhapatnam will get the next capital. Recently various big and little software system and BPO corporations have denoted programmes for set about development and outsourcing hearts in Vizag, which has also brought to the go up in real property monetary values. Inflows from Non-resident Indians (NRIs) from Vizag have further added to this move up.

Indira Gandhi Zoological Park was launch in 1972 in the town outskirts. The Zoo Park characteristics some of the rarest species in India.

Strategic importance

The bearer INS Viraat during the President's Fleet Review held in 2006. It was the 1st clip a fleet reexamine was maintained outside Bombay.

Many conflicts have been struggled in the town during such battles as World War II, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and the Bangladesh Liberation War. It was only the 2nd district in South Asia to be aggressed by Japanese scrapper airplanes during World War II. Recognising the strategical importance of the town and the part it played during the Bangladesh Liberation War, Pakistan directed its pigboat, PNS Ghazi to destruct India's only carrier. The sub dropped off the seashore (Pakistan demands, circumstantially hitting 1 of the mines it put; India demands, from a depth-charge dropped by the guided missile destroyer INS Rajput). The leftovers of the sub are on exhibit on the beach route.

The town was so eminent during clips of conflict that the Indian authority make up one's mind to found the Eastern Naval Command, overlooking the more populous Madras and Calcutta, and germinated Vizag during that time period. The organization of the E.N.C. shortly after the building of the ship construction pace steadfastly procured Vizag's location in the annals of the Indian Navy. More defense related to organizations would subsequently come up including the N.S.T.L. (Naval Science and Technology Laboratories), which is responsible for the development and try out of war vessel engineering, equipment and weapon system. The Navy is also building a 2nd establish as the current ground is overpopulated and not sufficient to run across the demands of the E.N.C. Despite its importance, the Naval organization has get a hinderance for the development of Visakhapatnam. The harbor is not open to the general public for ground of security, while in Bombay and Cochin, the entire port alongside with Naval docks are opened for boating and touristry.

The famous submarine museum near "Victory At Sea", Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam is border on 3 sides by the overlapping ranges of mountains, and the southeastern town is safeguarded by the Bay of Bengal. Vizag is far off from anybody international boundary line, both district and sea, surviving the selection for strategical arrangement of the home base of the eastern naval dictation.

Demographics

Vizag is a widely distributed flux of individuals from various divisions of the state. From a population of a few thousand locals during the 18th century and early 19th century the population turned steadily every decennium. The town duplicate its population from 1990–2000 owing to a big migrant population from border area  and other divisions of the country coming to the town to work in its heavy industries.

As of 2001 India nosecount, Visakhapatnam had a population of 2,845,938. After the state authority okayed the formation of Greater Visakhapatnam with the amalgamation of Gajuwaka municipality and 32 settlements in the neighborhood in the Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, the population of the town and the subway area  swelled to 3.1 million. Males establish 50% of the population and females 50%. The town has an mean literacy value of 69%, higher than the national mean of 59.5%. Male literacy is 74% and female literacy is 63%. 10% of the population is immature than 6. Visakhapatnam is named as 1 of the Ten Fastest Growing Cities of the World.

Hinduism is practiced by the bulk of citizens, come after by Islam and Christianity. The town patronized Buddhism for two millenaries as evident from the presence of many Buddhist sangharamas in the outskirts. The Buddhist population has nevertheless declined since. All the religious belief co-exist peacefully; Visakhapatnam ne'er witnessed communal public violence during its stallion history.

Language

Visakhapatnam is preponderantly a Telugu mouth town. The Telugu mouthed by the middle class is a standard idiom, while a eminent population who have settle down in the town from the marching small town and neighbor lands of East Godavari, Vizianagaram and Srikakulam mouth Uttarandhra (North Coastal) Mandalikam idioms. Historians believe that centuries ago, when Uttarandhra was division of the KalingaEmpire, Buddhist missionaries and merchandisers influence have taken Telugu (Derived from Brahmi playscript) book to Southeast Asia from the shores of Uttarandhra where it parented into the books of Mon, Burmese, Thai, Khmer, Siam, Javanese and Balinese linguistic communication and even Sinhala of Sri Lanka. Their similarities to Telugu playscript is able to be make out even currently.

Visakhapatnam is place to a little Oriya, Maharashtrians,Bengali and Malayalee communities; their migration is of recent beginning. Due to the Naval presence and high concentration of public sector industries, Visakhapatnam has a eminent Hindi mouth population.

Climate

The clime of Visakhapatnam has no appreciable seasonal modifies. Being close to the sea, the stage of humidness is high. The wavering in temperature are reasonably uniform in fictional character, except during the dry calendar month when the go up in temperature is higher than it is during the monsoon period of time. From February forwards, the temperature arises more and more till May, which is the hottest calendar month. From 1931-60 the maximal mean (Mean) temperature was 34 °C. This has been present an up tendency with the minimal and maximal for the time period of 1975-81 being described as 38 °C and 29 °C, severally. In recent yr, it has not been uncommon for the daytime temperature to surpass 43 °C during May. December, January are the coldest period of time of the yr.

Weather means for Visakhapatnam, AP
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Average high °C	25	31	34	35	36	35	33	33	33	33	32	29
Average low °C	18	21	23	26	28	28	26	26	26	24	22	19
Precipitation millimeter	12.0	12.0	17.0	39.0	48.0	103.0	133.0	169.0	160.0	179.0	79.0	4.0
Average high °F	84	88	93	95	98	96	92	91	91	90	87	85
Average low °F	65	69	74	79	82	82	80	79	79	76	72	67
Precipitation ins	0.47	0.47	0.67	1.54	1.89	4.06	5.24	6.65	6.30	7.06	3.11	0.16
Source: www.wunderground.com 2008-03-24

The mean one-year rain for the town and its border area  is of the say of 95 centimetres with the majority of the rainfall come up from the north east monsoon. Between September and November, violent storms and depressions originating in the Bay of Bengal cut across the east seashore in the vicinity doing heavy rainfalls and gales. As per Thornthwaite’s categorisation, Visakhapatnam and its surroundings come up under the semi–arid (D) family. All the constituents of clime viz. temperature, force per unit area, air current, rain, relative humidness and other weather condition phenomena just be and exhibit a well-marked fluctuation while January is the coolest calendar month of the yr with mean temperatures of 30 °C and 22.5 °C severally.

Transport

Visakhapatnam is good connected with daily voyages from Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Tirupati and Kolkata. Visakhapatnam Airport has late had permission to function nighttime voyages. A new 10,000 human foot long landing track got operational to adapt international voyages and bigger aircraft. The airport was 1 of the few pick out by the heart for modernisation including installations like aerobridges and in-migration stalls.

Visakhapatnam International Airport is turn up at S.Rayavaram, 50 kilometre from the town. It assists as the gateway and hub for international voyages link up South East Asia to the Indian subcontinent.

Visakhapatnam harbor; seaport interchange fly-by route is able to be seen here

Visakhapatnam is 1 of the towns on the east seashore of India linked by NH5, a major national main road and a division of the Golden Quadrilateral system of Indian main road tie Chennai and Kolkata. The main road is an eminent road for transporting load and someones from these towns to and from Vizag. Visakhapatnam has a good web of routes. There are frequent coaches to Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, Araku and Rajahmundry. There are even bus company to Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Tirupati, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata and few other divisions of Orissa and Karnataka.

Visakha vasulu do use of extensive public transport supplied by the APSRTC, which runs subway jitneys across various paths across the town and its suburban area. The APSRTC complex at Asilametta is the hub for most of these jitneys making major traffic jam during rush 60 minutes on the to a great extent dwell, choked Asilametta Junction. The town company is program to delve tubes, build footer flyovers and overpasses to computer address the traffic sufferings.

A Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) was okayed for the town under the JNNURM. This will do use of give lanes for coaches allowing for an efficient and high velocity way of transport for the public and significantly cut down traffic over-crowding, ameliorating safety. This task is under carrying out and shall be finished by mid 2009. Once finished it will do Visakhapatnam the 1st town in the state to implement the B.R.T.S.

Educational installations

Andhra university, college of applying scientist.

Visakhapatnam is see a center for educational activity in the province of Andhra Pradesh. There are several primary, senior high school and college stage establishments in the town. Apart from state-run schools for the poor, there are many private establishments, missionary schools and colleges. Established in 1878, A.V.N. College is 1 of the town's oldest educational establishments. Visakhapatnam is also the place of Andhra University which was constituted in 1926. Sarvepalli Radha Krishna, before he got the President of India, worked as the Vice Chancellor of the University between 1931 and 1936. The University and its consorted colleges furnish educational activity to thousands of pupils from the entire province. Post Graduate and Graduate classes are offered in various subdivisions like Arts, Commerce, Science & Technology, Engineering, IT, Business Management, Law and Pharmacy. The AU college of Pharmacy is the 2nd oldest pharmacological medicine constitute in India. The university is in the function of obtaining IIEST position and there is also a proposal for launch an IIM at Visakhapatnam. Other establishments of higher educational activity include Andhra Medical College, constituted in 1902 and the place of various instructing infirmaries, A.V.N. College, 1 of the town's oldest educational establishments, the Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM), which late achieved the position of an autonomous university, and the Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering.

St. Aloysius Anglo Indian High School is the oldest school in the land and 1 of the oldest schools in the state. It was constituted in 1847 and is turn up in the old city district. Kotak Salesian School, Kendriya Vidyalaya, S.F.S, Sri Krishna Vidya Mandir (located in Dwarakanagar), Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar, Siva Sivani, Little Angels, Timpany and Visakha vale are other schools in the area . The town has around ten Kendriya Vidyalaya's with aggregative pupil strength of 18000. Timpany School, Visakha Valley School and Sri Krishna Vidya Mandir rank among the top schools in Andhra Pradesh. Timpany School has 3 subdivisions - 1 consorted to ICSE and the other 2 to CBSE. Visakha Valley and Sri Krishna Vidya Mandir are consorted to CBSE.

The International Science Congress (I.S.C.) was hosted by Andhra University in 1976 and once again in 2008. It is the biggest faithful of scientists from different checks in the  world. Over 8000 mortals take part in the I.S.C. in 2008, including prominent Nobel Prize victors from around the  world.

Economy

Visakhapatnam Port.Visakhapatnam Outer HarbourHPCL Petro-Chemical ComplexNaval war vesselHindustan Shipyard Ltd Visakhapatnam

From being a tiny crossroads of local fishing communities during the early solar days of the Indian Independence Struggle and for a few decenniums after, the town set off economically, in fact the go up has been so dramatic that the town was placed as 1 of the 10 fastest turning towns in the  world economically and demographically. Various factors brought to the town's ontogeny economically, including the natural harbour, its place between Madras and Calcutta, access to the NH5 (a major National Expressway) and the germinated nework of railway line which transfigured the small town into a burgeoning industrial town.

The town has evolved into a hub for many heavy industries. The Visakhapatnam Port, the biggest in the land, was the idealistic gateway bringing to the development of rock oil, steel and plant food industries. The Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. were the 2 multi-billion dollar investing which lay Vizag on the commonwealth's industrial map. The town also has 2 N.T.P.C. influence constitutes to fulfill the huge influence demands of the industries. Visakhapatnam also houses the central office of the Dredging company of India.

Other heavy industries include Hindustan Zinc Limited, Synergies Castings Ltd., Rain Calcining Limited, Coromandel Fertilizers, Hindustan Ship Yard and Bharat Heavy Plate and Vessels Limited (B.H.P.V.). These industries furnish employ to centuries of thousands of individuals and pump billions of dollars into the province's economic system.

The town also owes its economic development to the accessibility of an educated English-speaking hands. English is the 1st linguistic communication in many locations of higher educational activity in the town. This accessibility of a extremely educated hands let the entry of many B.P.O. corporations such as HSBC, hence supplying the roots for the set about IT/ITES industry in the town. The town registered over 100% development in the I.T. sector over the last yr, bringing millions of dollars to the economic system. The town has around 50 little and medium software system and call center units, of which approximately ten units set about their functioning during the yr 2005-07. Software exports from the Visakhapatnam in 2007 were worth Rs. 245 crores - an increase of over 100% over the previous yr. Various national and international I.T. and banking giants have found or shall be set up business office in the town. These include Satyam, TCS, HSBC, Cognizant, Oracle Corporation, ABN AMRO, Patni, Hexaware Solutions, iSOFT, Sankhya Technologies, Infosys, iFlex, HCL, EDS, Datasoft Comnet Pvt. Ltd., Sutherland Global Services and Kanbay. The Andhra Pradesh authority furnished base and district for these corporations to establish their development centres in the town outskirts.

The turning population and economic system have ensued in the revamping of the real estate costs with costs at some prime quantity places in the town quadrupling over the past duo of yr. Various real estate corporations are set up public housing in the fringes of the town which is being shoot a line as the time to come I.T. destination of the state. Multiple Special Economic Zones (SEZ) have been approved for the town. Reliance and Brandix HPCL have bought huge area  in the SEZ for launch their industries. Bhaba Atomic Research Center has advised to establish their 2nd research center in the land after Trombay in this district. The town was 1 of the 5 in the commonwealth take to maintain strategical unprocessed reserves for the state in clips of national pinch.

The fishing industry is also on the move up with both foreign and domestic exports of tuna doubling over the past decennium. A 2nd port is being build at Gangavaram with an investing of 2 billion dollars which when finished shall be the deepest port wine in the land with the ability to manage the bigger international vas.

Its traditional importance in ship building is support by the fact that India's 1st ship, the "Jala Usha", was set up in Visakhapatnam. Visakhapatnam is also 1 of India's briny fishing ports, has a give harbor for the fishing industry and manages a big percent of India's seafood exports.

The Vizag Special Economic Zone plays a vital part in the industrial development of the town. The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has also show involvement in launch a nuclear influence constitute here.

The Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) has presented the tender to build a Knowledge City to Unitech Limited in an area  of 1750 acres, with an investing of Rs. 35 thousand crore.

Sports

Cricket is the most popular game come after by lawn tennis and football game. The town is place to a figure of local cricket squads take part in various land and zonary events. Gully cricket - a characteristic of cricket played in empty streets or maidans is a popular interest for local school/college locomoting minors in the eves. Vizag also co-hosted the 32nd National Games alongside with the state capital. Vishakapatnam has seven cricket bowls which are used for Ranji Trophy fits. However only two of these sports stadium have been used for One Day International ("ODI") fits.

• Indira Priyadarshini Stadium (five ODI Matches): Also known as the Municipal Corporation Stadium, it hosted the 1st ODI check on nine December 1988 and the last of the five on three April 2001. The arena has stopped hosting ODI fits in favour of the newer ACA-VDCA Stadium, which is located in the artificial satellite town of Madhurawada. The arena is position amid the hills and offers a scenic position.
• ACA-VDCA Stadium (two ODI Matches): The ACA-VDCA Stadium has hosted two ODIs with India winning against Pakistan in the 1st and against Sri Lanka in the 2nd. Now this arena is upgraded to host solar day/nighttime fits.

The town of Visakhapatnam has ne'er hosted a Test Match. The ACA-VDCA Stadium was late presented Test position. This does the ACA sports stadium the ninth arena to have a Test position in the land and the 2nd in Andhra Pradesh.

• Port Stadium : It is the biggest sports stadium in Visakhapatnam.

Steel Plant Township

Main article: Ukkunagaram

The beautiful and good planned town for the employees of the visakhapatnam steel constitute is named Ukkunagaram (ukku in Telugu for steel, nagaram in Telugu for city).

The project of the Township itself is state-of-the-art. The interior designer come after the Roman Circular plan for the layout of places and routes to hold the distances equal between anybody 2 points within the town.

There are 11 sectors in the Township, oldest of them being sectors 1, 2 and 3, and Sector seven which is the exclusive field of the managing director and the chair's places. Other sectors came into being as the constitute's staffing maturated. On the mean, each sectore dwells of approximately 300 housing units, which change from multi-storied quarterns (three flooring) to individual home places. There are also cottages solely for the managing director of the constitute.There are five types of housing units viz. A Type,B,C,D & managing director's bangalow

Sector one used to house the Russians who came to put up and committee the 1st blast furnace "Godavari", The RMHP, Sinter, and Coke Oven Batteries I & II.

The beauty of the Township is that it sits in the cradle of the unspoilt wood belt get down at the Valleys of Aracu through Yelamanchili to Narsipatnam. The town come up under the mandate of the Town Administration. The elongated afforestation attempts of the direction has insured a viridity and pollution-free environment and thereby making a unique ecosystem in itself. The town has good unbroken routes, modulated traffic. The town also has all market locations, parklands, baseball clubs, athletics installations solely for the employees and their dependants.

Last but not the smallest is the scenes that the Big Kanithi Balancing reservoir offers. This big mass of water reservoir is for the captive ingestion of the constitute and the town like and sit down between the Township and the NH5. It forces its water from a special canal constructed solely for it from the River Yeleru, a affluent of the great river Godavari.

The route that directs from the constitute center briny entrance into the town really go in front as a go around to the busy NH5 and passes over Anakapalli direct to Yelamanchili and Tuni, cutting well-nigh 30 kilometre on the road path from Visakhapatnam to Vijayawada.

Radio stations

The town has a good assortment of AM and FM wireless transmission channels.Vishaka FM(93.5 S FM) was the 1st private FM transmission channel in AP.The FM Radio transmission channels broadcasted in the town are:

• AIR Rainbow FM 102 MHz
• Radio Mirchi FM 98.3 MHz
• Radio City FM 91.1 MHz
• Big FM 92.7 MHz
• S FM 93.5 MHz
• AIR Gyan Vani FM 106.4 MHz-educative transmission channel

Notable inhabitants

• Srirangam Srinivasa Rao (Sri Sri) - poet
• Alluri Sita Rama Raju - subversive
• Tenneti Viswanadham - subversive
• Dr. C.V. Raman - physicist
• Dr. Sarvepalli Radha Krishnan - Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University (1931–1936)
• Y. Venu Gopala Rao - cricketer
• Gollapudi Maruthi Rao - movie player, author
• Subhaleka Sudhakar - movie player
• Sobha Naidu - Padma Shri victor, classic terpsichorean
• Gouthami - picture actress

Timeline of Visakhapatnam's history

• 260 BCE: Ashoka subdued the Kalinga imperium (of which Visakhapatnam was a division).
• 208: Chandra Sri Satakarni was male monarch of this district.
• eleventh century: Simhachalam Temple constructed by Kulottunga I.
• 13th century: Simhachalam Temple restituted and do southern imperial beard center by the Ganga male monarch Narasimha I of Orissa.
• 1515: Krishna Deva Raya was rule of the area  consisting Visakhapatnam.
• Mid-17th century: A mill was constituted in "Vizagapatam" by the British East India Company.
• 1689: The British mill was busy by the impels of Aurangzeb.
• 1735: Dutch Colony was constituted.
• 1765: The district of the Northern Circars, of which Visakhapatnam was a division, give up to the British East India Company by the Nizam of Hyderabad. Following this, a British settlement was constituted.

• 1847:St. Aloysius High School was constituted.It is 1 of the oldest schools in India.

• 1881: The statute title of Raja was confabulated upon Sri Goday Narayana Gajapathi Rao, Zamindar of Anakapalle and other estates
• 1904: Railway from Madras to Calcutta, passing through Vizagapatam, was opened.
• 1902 : Andhra Medical College was constituted by Maharaja Goday Narayana Gajapati Rao and Maharani Lady Goday Chittijanakiammah.
• 1921 (14 September) - Arrest of the subversive Maulana Mohammad Ali at the Waltair (currently Visakhapatnam) railroad terminal while journeying to to Madras with Mahatma Gandhi. In the eve a public seeing was held on the beach where burdens of foreign dresses were fired. Umar Alisha, a Telugu poet, do a fiery address against Ali's nail.
• 1926: Andhra University constituted.
• 1931: Timpany School constituted.
• 1933: Visakhapatnam Port constituted.
• 1942: Japanese conflict aeroplanes assail Visakhapatnam.
• 1947: Eastern Naval Command constituted its ground here. Before 1947 the Royal Navy had a ground in HMIS Sircars.
• 1949: Scindia Shipyard set about. Later nationalized and named Hindustan Shipyard.
• 1953: The Boat Repair Shop spread out into a Base Repair Organisation (BRO) and switched to the place at the oral cavity of the northwest transmission channel.
• 1957: A oil refinery by Caltex, now owned by HPCL.
• 1965: Two appraise ships, "Jumna" and "Investigator", were for good rebased at Visakhapatnam.
• 1968: Visakha Valley School constituted.
• 1971: INS Rajput of the Indian Navy destructs the Pakistani submarine Ghazi in the Indo-Pak War off the seashore of Visakhapatnam.
• 1977: Indira Gandhi Zoological Park constituted near Madhurawada.
• 1981: Visakhapatnam Steel Plant building set about.
• 1989: VSEZ once known as VEPZ was constituted.
• 1990: Visakhapatnam Steel Plant set about its functioning.
• 1997: September 14 - A blare in HPCL with an functionary death price of 33.

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