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Kakinada is a major educational center with several schools, colleges and universities. Many among the younger generation are migrating to the cities like Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and out of the country in search of opportunities that meet their scale of ambition. However, there are significant parts of the society that have ridden the boom by expanding their businesses and investments. The local population is supplemented by immigrants who have left their villages to seek work and opportunity in this bustling city.

These choultries take applications at the start of the Academic year (June). Netha Varga Samkshema Sangham (Weavers Hostel): This hostel is located at Mantripragada Street which provides accommodation to Economically Backward students (Priority is given for students from Weavers Community) collecting only Maintenance Charges (around Rs. 150/- per month). But due to lack of proper administration and funds this Hostel is about to close. For details of this hostel visit www.weavershostel.hpage.com

In 2010, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board awarded the City Gas Distribution project for Kakinada city to Bhagyanagar Gas Limited, a consortium of GAIL and Hindustan Petroleum. The construction work is underway to supply gas to Kakinada city and the surrounding towns of Samalkot, Peddapuram and Pithapuram, thus making Kakinada the first city in Andhra Pradesh to get piped gas supply for domestic, commercial and industrial purposes along with Hyderabad and Vijayawada.

The northern part consists of the more modern part of the city and its recent outgrowth. The eastern part is separated from coastline by an industrial belt, running north-south through the entire length of the city. The city is bordered in the south east by Kakinada bay and a marshy wetland, home to India’s second largest mangrove forest and Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary. One of the branches of the mighty River Godavari, the Gouthami, flows into the Bay of Bengal at this point.

Kakinada is also one of the few regions in the entire Andhra Pradesh where Chekkarakeli aratipandu (banana) and Kothapalli kobbari maamidipandu (mango) are available. Kakinada is also famous for its delicious pesarattu, a breakfast or brunch item formed into crêpes from moong daal (pesara pappu), green chillies, ginger and cumin. These are sold in restaurants as well as street stalls. Pootarekulu is a sweet in coastal Andhra, made of thin sugar wafers.

There are many Schools with different boards like State, CBSE, ICSE. ICSE school St. Joseph’s Convent and CBSE schools like Akshara, Ashram, Hamsavahini Vidyalaya, Subhaniketan, Nalanda, Kakinada Public School (KPS) etc. are prominent. Several state board private schools like Pragati Little public school, Aditya Public school, Pithapuram Rajas Govt Degree College (a), Ideal college of Arts and Sciences, M S N Degree College are also popular.

Kakinada is a major educational hub fulfilling the growing educational demands of people in the state. The past decade has witnessed exponential growth and many residential colleges have been established to offer quality secondary education. There are also several professional colleges in and around the city offering courses in Engineering, Medicine, Information Technology and Management at the graduate and postgraduate level.

There are many choultries in Kakinada which provide a free food facility for poor students throughout their Education. Famous choultries are: 1. Bangaru China Sobanadri ( Office in the market near to Masjid Centre) 2. Mutha Manikyam (Kalpana Centre) 3. Mutha Sarvarayudu ( kalpana Centre) 4. Pydah Chalamaiah ( Devalayam Street, Near Balaji Cheruvu) 4. Mantripragada Choultry ( Office in Mutta complex at Mantripragada street )

In 2002 several edible oil refineries established themselves in Kakinada and the refining capacity has touched 3000 tons per day. Kakinada port is facilitating the imports of crude palm oil, crude soyabean oil. Kakinada has an edible oil refining capacity of more than 3000 MTS per day. Major refineries are Acalmar Oils & Fats Limited (now, taken over by Adani Wilmar Ltd.), Ruchi Infrastructure, Nikhil Refineries Ltd, etc.

Kakinada is also the hub of the world’s largest discovery of national gas in the Krishna Godavari basin, which is being extracted by Reliance Industries. This has resulted in significant industrial activity with various refineries and energy industries coming up. With the recent growth in the industrial and commercial sectors, major hotels, multiplex theatres and shopping malls are just beginning to show up in the city.

The Vakalapudi Industrial park in Kakinada has attracted investments worth over US$ 10 million from bio-diesel companies such as Reliance Industries, Naturol Bioenergy and Universal Bio Fuel. Andhra Pradesh has entered into a formal agreement with Reliance Industries for Jatropha planting. The company has selected 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land at Kakinada to grow jatropha for high quality bio-diesel fuel.

The nearest airport is located at Rajahmundry, about 65 km.Rajahmundry Airport has services to Chennai, Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Bangalore. Kingfisher Airlines, Jet Airways and Spice Jet are the airlines operating here. The other nearest major airport is at Visakhapatnam at a distance of 145 km and has the services of many airline operators to major cities in the country.

The Godavari Telugu accent places emphasis on respecting elders and strangers. To achieve this, people of this region normally use the grammatical forms of Telugu that convey respect which is not found in Telugu usage in other parts of the Andhra Pradesh. The educated and the young understand English and use it as a mode of communication with people outside the state.

Andhra University Post Graduate Centre (called A.U.M.S.N. PG Centre), established in November 1977, is another important college for higher learning in Kakinada. This University center is located between Kakinada Port – Samalkot ADB Road on a 50.93-acre (206,100 m2) campus in Thimmapuram. The campus is six kilometres from Kakinada Town Railway Station.

More recent food attractions include Yati foods and its restaurants at several locations in Kakinada. The Hyderabadi Dum Biryani recipe made at the Bhanugudi location is said to rival the famous Bawarchi biryani of Hyderabad, Other famous restaurants include Dakshin,Arali,E2,bhemas,seasons,unnat,aryan,spice,Haveli,surya residency and Varmas.

East Godavari is famous for traditional Andhra cuisine and Kakinada is no different: pickles (aavakaaya) made from mangoes, vegetables (e.g. cauliflower aavakaaya), chicken, shrimp, mutton or even fish. Some people here swear by the pungent aroma and the lingering taste of dried fish (Endu Chepa) and shrimp (Endu Royya).

This city is also famous for its unique Kakinada Kaaja, a sweet made from maida and dipped in sugar syrup. This sweet was very popular not only in Andhra but also in far away places like Bihar and U. P. Kotiah Sweets (founded in 1900) is locally the most famous and possibly the earliest known maker of Kakinada Kaaja.

People from Kakinada can easily be identified by their characteristic Godavari Telugu accent. They have gained a reputation for being hospitable, polite and cultured. People from Kakinada frequently uses a common suffix word “andi” just like a word “ji” in Hindi, which offers respect to the person corresponding to.

As of 2011 census, Kakinada municipality had a population of 312,255 and the urban agglomeration had a population of 442,936. The sex ratio was 1046 females per 1000 males and 8.7% of the population were under six years old. Effective literacy was 81.23%; male literacy was 84.88% and female literacy was 77.76%.

Kakinada is home to Decon Engineers, an fabrication cum machine shop, which started its operations in 1984. The company has developed since inception and today, they are “The Experts in Professional Engineering”. They have emerged as the goto place for any and all professional engineering services.

Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd (RGTIL) has built a 1,440 km pipeline from Kakinada to Bharuch to transport 120 million cubic meters per day (mcmd) of natural gas from Krishna-Godavari fields owned by Reliance Industries across India to the west coast.

There is a demand for construction of the long waited Kakinada – Pitapuram railway line of 21 km length which connects Kakinada to the main line apart from extending the Kakinada-Kotipalli railway line to Narsapur which will bring rail connectivity to Konaseema region.

The Murugappa Group-owned EID Parry (India) Ltd and Cargill International SA joint venture, Silk Road Sugars Pvt Ltd, has a port-based stand-alone sugar refinery in Kakinada with a refining capacity of 6 lakh tonnes. Reliance is also planning to set up a sugar mill.

Kakinada is part of a Special Economic Zone and a proposed “Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR)”. It is a hub to all the deep sea exploratory activity in the region due to its deep-water sea port and its proximity to the gas fields.

Imports include chemicals, edible oils, and agricultural products (e.g. wheat and sugar). The deep water port handled a cargo of 13MT during 2009–10.LAURSAN&TUBRO,has chosen kakinada to build a ship yard with a worth of rupees 1000 crs.

Kakinada’s principal exports now include seafood (prawns, shrimp, fish) and related products, agricultural products like rice, corn, oilmeals, processed food products, chemicals, iron ore, bauxite powder, and biofuel.

The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada offers engineering courses and has a school of business, while Rangaraya Medical College is one of the best medical colleges in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Locals frequent the innumerable carts strategically located on populous street corners to purchase bhajis and a delicious mixture of onions, toasted rice, and sev (Pidatha Kindha Pappu).

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