Infrastructure development a priority: Chandy

Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy today said the state government was accelerating its infrastructure development programme to match the state's progress in other key areas such as education and healthcare.

Chandy shared the state's intention during an interaction with a group of visiting management and engineering students from the Kansas University School of Business and the Colorado University, both in the US.

"Despite the tremendous achievements that we have made in terms of social and health indicators, we have a considerable ground to make up in terms of infrastructure. So, we are now concentrating on large and economically-beneficial projects such as Vizhinjam Port, Smart City and Kannur International Airport," he told the visiting 17 foreign students.

Chandy highlighted the state's flagship youth entrepreneurship programme and the student entrepreneurship policy as a major effort to mould a new generation of job creators and to give the state's economy a new direction.