On Tuesday, Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu virtually met with Neal Mohan, Global CEO of YouTube, and Sanjay Gupta, President of the Asia Pacific region at Google to establish a YouTube academy in the new capital of Andhra Pradesh. The goal is to promote Al-driven governance and expand Al to areas like agriculture, healthcare, sustainability, skill development, Al workforce cultivation, and MSME.

Naidu is looking for the tech giants to sign an MoU under the 'Al for Andhra Pradesh, Powered by Google' initiative.

He later tweeted, "... we explored avenues for providing technical support for the Media City initiative in our capital, Amaravati.

"With the capital project of Amaravati back on track, the TDP government has expedited the developmental work. As a start, the government has officially begun the jungle clearance works that will weed out bushes in the region and the deadline has been 30 days from now,"

Naidu added, "Keeping in mind the recent union budgetary allocations for Amaravati, the government is also moving fast and is looking at different models including Navi Mumbai for replication of ideal urban development designs. "

CM Naidu has been a long-time supporter of the inclusion of technology in governance. In 1998, the tech startup Google was launched. The following year, Andhra Pradesh's Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu introduced APSWAN, an e-governance initiative connecting Hyderabad with district