Minister P Narayan: Amaravati development work will be completed in 30 months

Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Municipal Administration Minister P Narayana said here on Sunday that the development works of Amaravati capital city will be completed in two and a half years. Narayana said the state capital Amaravati will be developed as one of the top five capital cities of the world and plans formulated in the past will be implemented to achieve this goal. “In the coming two and a half years, we will complete the development works of the state capital Amaravati,” Narayana said while speaking to reporters after taking charge at the state secretariat. According to the minister, the Singapore government is involved in all the development works initiated in the capital, especially in designing the city in a way that brings financial benefits to all the districts. He said visits were made to Singapore, China, Japan, Russia, Malaysia and other countries to prepare the best design for Amaravati. Narayana said tenders worth Rs 48,000 crore were invited in the past to provide all facilities in most areas of the capital and bills worth Rs 9,000 crore have already been paid. These works include construction of residential quarters for bureaucrats, MLAs and others, which is 90 per cent complete, he said. Narayana claimed that after the land pooling notification was issued on January 1, 2015, to make Amaravati the capital, farmers had handed over 34,000 acres of land to the government by February 28, 2015. However, he said the previous YSRCP government had neglected the capital city development project. The minister said he would review the plans with officials from today and some clarity would emerge on prioritising the capital city works in the next 15 days. He said the capital development master plan prepared earlier would be implemented in three phases, specifically. He said the first phase of the city building development works would cost Rs 48,000 crore and the second phase would focus on building metro rail infrastructure and setting up a public transport system.