visakhapatnam vizagites often hear of the city being turned into a logistics hub financial hub tourism hub and hardware hub whenever chief minister n chandrababu naidu visits the port city however contrary to expectations of the public of the city of destiny the second consecutive budget presented by finance minister yanamala ramakrishnudu on thursday fails to spell out the steps to develop the city into even one of these hubs while there was no mention of logistics hub financial hub or hardware hub in the budget the announcements on tourism development also left vizag high and dry as there are no specific initiatives declared in the fms speech while the budget mentioned development of tourism circuits in krishna guntur chittoor and srikakulam districts and even development of bhavani island near vijayawada there was no mention of vizag slamming the state government cpi state assistant secretary jv satyanarayana murthy said whenever the cm goes to any district he announces so many things but in the budget there is nothing for visakhapatnam the cm makes promises but does not keep any of them bjp mla p vishnukumar raju said visakhapatnam seems to have been completely ignored funds should have been allocated under infrastructure or tourism development but the government hasnt provided for any of these right from election campaigning he cm started projecting vizag as a hub for many things be it education or financial but after seeing the last budget and this one there is nothing for the city we were also looking for allocation of funds for the sujala sravanthi project but there is nothing on that either said yscrp district president gudivada amarnath pointing out that the state government had earlier spoken of making vizag a hub for tollywood too a shipping industry executive said it is one thing to announce and another to execute if the state government wants to implement any of its announcements it has to offer certain incentives to attract those sectors if those incentives are not there why would anybody want to shift from other cities or invest in vizag however tdp mla from gajuwaka palla srinivasa rao countered these arguments stating the allocations will be coming from the concerned departments and the government is committed to developing the city the government has already said that permissions to industries will be given in 21 days to improve the ease of doing business and attract investments the state government is also looking at funds from usa for developing vizag as a smart city