Writing Skill Development for Competitive Examinations
(This has been sourced from Hindu dated March 29.)
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The potential for development of a shipbuilding and repair cluster in Andhra Pradesh, which has India’s second longest coastline after Gujarat, has been a wasted opportunity for decades but the State government is closer to realising it than ever before.
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Andhra Pradesh has India’s second longest coastline. Gujarat has the longest. Surprisingly, Andhra Pradesh has wasted its opportunity to develop a shipbuilding and repair cluster here. For decades, the State did little to exploit this opportunity. Belatedly, the State government is working to utilize this advantage.
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What has come as a boost to the State’s plans to put its resource — a rich, 1,053-km-long coast to optimum use, is the push given by the Centre to develop the shipbuilding sector as part of its Maritime Amrit Kaal Vision 2047.
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The Center has started an initiative under the name of Maritime Amrit Kaal Vision 2047 to bolster the country’s shipbuilding capacity. As part of this, the central government has pushed Andhra Pradesh to make use of its rich resource of 1053 km-long coastline.
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Going into the specifics, the Centre identified Dugarajapatnam in Tirupati district as one of the five key sites for its ambitious shipbuilding cluster initiative, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Odisha and Maharashtra being the others.
Model Answer
The Center identified Dugarajapatnam in Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh as one of the top five sites to have a new shipbuilding cluster. The other contenders for having such a shipbuilding plant are Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.