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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will lay the foundation for the construction of global IT giant Cognizant and eight other companies in Visakhapatnam on Friday, Dec. 12.

Andhra Pradesh Information Technology Minister Nara Lokesh will also formally inaugurate the temporary campus of the company that will accommodate 1,000 people.

In June, Lokesh had said Cognizant would be setting up a major campus in Vishakhapatnam with a Rs 1,583-crore investment, creating 8,000 jobs in three phases on a 22-acre site at Kapuluppada IT Hills.

Lokesh said the government approved the project to position Andhra Pradesh as a global technology hub and promote digit

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