Telugu Desam Party (TDP) State president and Gajuwaka MLA Palla Srinivasa Rao on Tuesday described the Union government’s gazette notification establishing the South Coast Railway (SCoR) Zone, with Visakhapatnam as its headquarters, as a historic milestone.

Speaking to the media, Mr. Srinivasa Rao credited the realisation of the zone to the sustained efforts and strategic foresight of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. He said the Chief Minister consistently leveraged his influence at the national level to ensure that commitments made under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act were translated into reality.