01 — Local economy
Business in Vijayawada
At the head of the Krishna delta, Vijayawada grew as a railway junction and wholesale market for coastal Andhra. Its Autonagar is a large cluster of lorry-body builders, vehicle workshops and spare-parts dealers, while traders move rice, mangoes from the Nunna market, textiles and fuel from oil-company depots. Cement, food processing, education and a small IT sector round out the economy.
Also known as Bezawada.
Where software helps: Spare-parts dealers and body-building workshops in Autonagar track thousands of part numbers, job cards for each vehicle and running credit with fleet owners, which manual ledgers and basic billing rarely reconcile.