visakhapatnam in a crucial move that will reintroduce adventure sports in andhra pradesh the state government on thursday issued letters of award to organisations involved in adventure and water sports activities adventure sports will soon resume in the state following a series of inspections according to tourism department sourcesthe state government had imposed a ban on adventure sports following the godavari river boat tragedy on september 15 2019 in which 34 people died but according to managements of adventure sports companies such activities have been shut down in the state since 2017 after a boat mishap in vijayawada led to 21 deathsspeaking to toi mohammed fasiurrahman general secretary of visakha adventure and water sports welfare association vaaswa said at least something positive happened for us on thursday several organisations involved in water sports in the state got letters of award we are hopeful that the remaining process wont get delayeda senior official of the tourism department said as the activities remained closed for quite some time we are going to carry out thorough inspections of the equipment available with these companies we are not going to compromise on safety standardsthere are around 67 adventure sports companies in the state of them 23 are officially registered with adventure sports associations in andhra pradesh