A lifeline for Vizag Metal

Visakhapatnam, or because the Telugu biddas prefer to name it, ‘Vizag’, is Andhra Pradesh’s greatest metro metropolis and lays declare to such honorifics because the ‘shipbuilding capital of India’ and the ‘jewel of the East coast’. And among the many jewels the town boasts of is the government-owned Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) or the Vizag Metal Plant (VSP), declared a ‘Navaratna’ in 2010 however now dealing with an unsure future. In 2021, the Union cupboard had authorised the disinvestment plan for the plant, however after large protests within the metropolis, the transfer was placed on ice.