The foundation stone laid for Bharat Electronics Limited’s new optics manufacturing facility at Nimmaluru village near Pamarru in Krishna District.
Chief Minister, N Chandrababu Naidu and Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M Venkaiah Naidu have graced the occasion. BEL, which is having the same facility in district headquarter, Machilipatnam town. Since, 2008, BEL wanted another 50-acre site for expansion of its activity and made a request to the state government.
After clearing several hurdles, the state government finally allotted the required land to BEL in April this year. This will be the largest night vision equipment manufacturing facility in the country. BEL will manufacture futuristic optical, night vision and soldier surveillance devices at a cost of Rs 300 crore at the new facility which will be ready by 2018. Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Y Satyanarayana Chowdary, Machilipatnam MP K Narayana Rao and others attended the event.