As the district capital of the Kakinada District, Kakinada (previously known as Kakinandiwada, Coringa, and Cocanada; listen) is the sixth largest city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.[6] It is located along the Bay of Bengal’s shore. The most renowned and established government college in the state of Andhra Pradesh is J.N.T.U. College of Engineering Kakinada, which was founded in 1946. Here, in 1946, Andhra Polytechnic, the state’s first polytechnic college, was founded. During British administration, it was also the starting point of the Buckingham Canal, which was used to move products by water. The largest seaport in Asia used to be located there (today near the settlement Coringa). From this seaport, a large number of city residents moved to Burma, Mauritius,