visakhapatnam in a major boost to the city tourism attraction the greater visakhapatnam municipal corporation gvmc planned to develop four new beaches in the next 45 days before the g20 summit to be held in the last week of march gvmc officials said that the local body would spend around rs 2 crore on the developmental works initially and it would further take up longterm planning to explore the unexplored beaches sagarnagar jodugullapalem thotlakonda and mangamaripeta beaches the funds would be granted under the beautification works of the city for the g20 summit and global investment summitgvmc commissioner p raja babu said the 25 km stretch of the coast in the city from the fishing harbor to bheemili vizag city had many beautiful beaches which had not been explored to datewe need to introduce new beaches more beautiful than other existing beaches it is one way to help the authorities to divert the public to other new attractions rather than concentrating on only rk beach he saidinitially the gvmc is taking up developmental works of four beaches and later it would take up the development of another five to six beachesnow the authorities would provide all facilities to the visitors in the four beaches jodugullapalem sagarnagar thotlakonda and mangamaripeta food courts childrens play arena toilets drinking water facility and also lightingapart from this the gvmc authorities would deploy lifeguards and also security with the help of city policewe will seek the help of the police for the protection of the visitors along with the lifeguards after the g20 summit we will focus further development of these beaches with cctv arrangements control rooms and watch towers to ensure safety and security at beaches the gvmc commissioner saidto avoid drowning incidents officials are also planning to provide safe zones on the beaches if the gvmc provides facilities on those four beaches then the congestion of crowds would gradually come down at rk beachthe authorities would arrange led screens at all these four beaches so all major programs organised at the rk beach would be telecasted on these beachesthe gvmc commissioner said that environmentally friendly saplings would be planted on the coastline especially on these beaches by consulting the environmental studies experts of andhra university and unwanted plants would be weeded out