KACHARAGADLA

The global investment firm sets sights on Vizag Franklin Templeton has plans to launch its operations in Visakhapatnam in case the State government provides land facing the seashore. Franklin Templeton President and COO Jennifer Johnson informed this to Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who called on her in California on Tuesday. She also enquired about the availability of high-end talent in AP, telecom carrier capacity, broadband connectivity and cloud infrastructure, etc. Mr. Naidu assured her that the State government would provide land, water and power etc. to start a campus. The government was providing fiber connectivity to every house. To provide Internet services to the remotest villages, the government was working with Google X. An ecosystem was being developed in Visakhapatnam for Fintech, data analytics and processing, he said. As far as manpower was concerned, Mr. Naidu said Franklin Templeton need not have any apprehensions. Out of every four IT professi