Sub: Developing a sea port & port based SEZ between Durgarajupatnam & Thoopulipalem in Vakadu Mandal of Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh under PPP mode – - Regarding.
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This is to inform all the prospective investors and venture capitalists that there is sufficient scope for developing a sea port between Durgarajupatnam& Thoopulipalem in Vakadu mandal of Nellore district in Andhra pradesh. This would give a boost to the economy of the neighbouring Chittoor district as well as the Special economic zone at Sathyavedu and also the M.I.R.& the Inter state South Indian Industrial corridor which are in the pipeline besides giving scope for some more power projects in and around the proposed port.Durgarajupatnam is known for port activity since times immemorial. A team from the ports department also visited the site recently to assess the potential of the port.
In fact Armagon was the first British settlement before they acquired Madras.Am reproducing the following paras from old British records which made particular reference to Durgarajupatnam for your kind perusal and better appreciation of it’s potential as a sea port.
“To Coromandel’s shores, following the trade routes first navigated by the Arabs, then centuries later by the Portuguese and Dutch, the British came in the early 17th century. Seeking a permanent trading settlement and investment in a textile-producing area, Andrew Cogan, the chief agent of the East India Company at Machilipatnam, sent his Factor at Armagon near Nellore, Francis Day, scouting for a place where the Company, established on the first day of 1600, could find ‘cloath better cheape’
By 1612, the Dutch established themselves in Pulicat to the north. In the seventeenth century when the British East India Company decided to build a factory on the east coast they selected Armagon (Dugarazpatnam), a village around 35 miles North of Pulicat, as the site in 1626. The calico cloth from the local area, which was in high demand
Armagon (Armeghon, Armugam).-Village in the Gudur taluk of
Nellore District, Madras, situated in I3? 59' N. and 80? io' E., on the Bay of Bengal. The place is now sometimes called Monapalem,from a neighbouring village with a lighthouse, and sometimes Dugarazu-patnam, from another village where open communication with the sea can be maintained. It is said to be named after one Arumuga Mudaliyar, by whose assistance one of the earliest English settlements on the Coromandel coast, consisting of a factory defended by twelve pieces of cannon, was established in 1625. A lighthouse is maintained at Monapalem in 13? 53' N. and 80? 8' E., which gives a flash every 20 seconds visible 14 miles away, and warns vessels off the Armagon
shoal, 6 miles from shore. The shoal is about Io miles long, and the shallowest patch on it has ix fathoms of water, and lies from 3? to 51 miles east-by-north of the lighthouse. The still water inside the shoal is called Blackwood's Harbour, after Sir Henry Blackwood, once admiral on this coast, who had it charted, and suggested that it would make a practicable harbour. Seven miles north of Armagon lighthouse is Dugarazupatnam, a small village of 2,388 in habitants on the Buck-ingham Canal . Being at the mouth of an entrance to the sea from the backwater in front of which Armagon stands, it was apparently the port of Armagon, and the two places are often spoken of as identical. Near by are the remains of an old fort built by the East India Company.
www.maplandia.com/india/andhra.../durgarajupatnam/
www.dgllnoida.gov.in/visaga/ARMAGON.html
The site is 30 km from the NH at Nayudupeta and with in 100 Km from Chennai/Tirupati besides being in close proximity to Tada growth centre. In view of the upcoming MIR/South indian industrial corridor the proposed port based Sez at Durgarajupatnam would bea successful venture for any investor.[/B]
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This is to inform all the prospective investors and venture capitalists that there is sufficient scope for developing a sea port between Durgarajupatnam& Thoopulipalem in Vakadu mandal of Nellore district in Andhra pradesh. This would give a boost to the economy of the neighbouring Chittoor district as well as the Special economic zone at Sathyavedu and also the M.I.R.& the Inter state South Indian Industrial corridor which are in the pipeline besides giving scope for some more power projects in and around the proposed port.Durgarajupatnam is known for port activity since times immemorial. A team from the ports department also visited the site recently to assess the potential of the port.
In fact Armagon was the first British settlement before they acquired Madras.Am reproducing the following paras from old British records which made particular reference to Durgarajupatnam for your kind perusal and better appreciation of it’s potential as a sea port.
“To Coromandel’s shores, following the trade routes first navigated by the Arabs, then centuries later by the Portuguese and Dutch, the British came in the early 17th century. Seeking a permanent trading settlement and investment in a textile-producing area, Andrew Cogan, the chief agent of the East India Company at Machilipatnam, sent his Factor at Armagon near Nellore, Francis Day, scouting for a place where the Company, established on the first day of 1600, could find ‘cloath better cheape’
By 1612, the Dutch established themselves in Pulicat to the north. In the seventeenth century when the British East India Company decided to build a factory on the east coast they selected Armagon (Dugarazpatnam), a village around 35 miles North of Pulicat, as the site in 1626. The calico cloth from the local area, which was in high demand
Armagon (Armeghon, Armugam).-Village in the Gudur taluk of
Nellore District, Madras, situated in I3? 59' N. and 80? io' E., on the Bay of Bengal. The place is now sometimes called Monapalem,from a neighbouring village with a lighthouse, and sometimes Dugarazu-patnam, from another village where open communication with the sea can be maintained. It is said to be named after one Arumuga Mudaliyar, by whose assistance one of the earliest English settlements on the Coromandel coast, consisting of a factory defended by twelve pieces of cannon, was established in 1625. A lighthouse is maintained at Monapalem in 13? 53' N. and 80? 8' E., which gives a flash every 20 seconds visible 14 miles away, and warns vessels off the Armagon
shoal, 6 miles from shore. The shoal is about Io miles long, and the shallowest patch on it has ix fathoms of water, and lies from 3? to 51 miles east-by-north of the lighthouse. The still water inside the shoal is called Blackwood's Harbour, after Sir Henry Blackwood, once admiral on this coast, who had it charted, and suggested that it would make a practicable harbour. Seven miles north of Armagon lighthouse is Dugarazupatnam, a small village of 2,388 in habitants on the Buck-ingham Canal . Being at the mouth of an entrance to the sea from the backwater in front of which Armagon stands, it was apparently the port of Armagon, and the two places are often spoken of as identical. Near by are the remains of an old fort built by the East India Company.
www.maplandia.com/india/andhra.../durgarajupatnam/
www.dgllnoida.gov.in/visaga/ARMAGON.html
The site is 30 km from the NH at Nayudupeta and with in 100 Km from Chennai/Tirupati besides being in close proximity to Tada growth centre. In view of the upcoming MIR/South indian industrial corridor the proposed port based Sez at Durgarajupatnam would bea successful venture for any investor.[/B]
