Andhra Pradesh Magazine English June 2016 | Page 11

Two Years of Accomplishments

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During these last two years, the Chief Minister dreamed, conceived, visualised and
commenced execution of the capital city Amaravati with great passion and ambition,
unmindful of obstacles of all sorts.
with Andhra Pradesh in its
endeavour.

of pride for the people of AP and
India.

Amaravati has now become the
symbol of the newly resurgent
Andhra Pradesh. With a 2,000-year
history, Amaravati resonates the
glorious past of the Telugus. But the
CM is not one to rest on the
splendours of the past, as he
meticulously set out to create a
people’s capital that synthesises the
ancient symbolism with a
contemporay metropolis.

The spectacular event was attended
by lakhs of enthusiastic people from
across the state and beyond. A day
eariler, the Chief Minister flew over
the core area of the capital in a
helicopter and sprinkled holy water
and soil brought from 16,000
villages across the State. Naidu had
flown in soil from the holy sites of
Jerusalem and Mecca, sprinkled the
site with holy water from the Ganga
and Godavari, and gone to great
lengths to seek blessings from
people across the State and the rest
of the country.

Maki and Associates, a worldrenowned Japanese architecture
firm, is in the process of designing
two iconic buildings - State
Assembly and High Court - for the
capital.

Once the name and place for the
capital city was decided, the CM
went about planning the capital city
in right earnest. Singapore, which
was entrusted with the
responsibilty of drawing up
masterplan for a world class capital
city, submitted its draft soon after.

The capital region has been
designed to cater for an 11.5 million
population, with a provision for 3.3
million jobs by 2035, while the core
capital area, spreading 16.9 sq km,
will meet the requirements of four
million people, creating close to 1.8
million jobs by 2050.

t was a masterstroke in
branding as Chief Minister
Chandrababu Naidu set out to
give a world class city to the
Telugus by reviving the historic
Amaravati.

The first brick of the ‘People’s
Capital’ of Andhra Pradesh was
symbolically put in place by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi on
Vijayadasami (October 22) when he
laid the foundation for Amaravati
on the banks of the Krishna between
Vijayawada and Guntur.
On that afternoon, the newly formed
state of Andhra Pradesh heralded
the beginnings of its newest capital
city, Amaravati. In his speech, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, referring
to his gift of soil and water from the
precincts of Parliament and River
Yamuna in Delhi, said this
endowment signified that the entire
Indian nation stood with the people
of Andhra Pradesh in building
Amaravati and, in accordance, Delhi
would stand shoulder to shoulder

JUNE 2016

Pictures of the planned Amaravati
Government Core, Downtown,
Gateway, Waterfront and the Road
Networks prepared by the
Singapore team have already
mesmerised the people at large.
Amaravati will be the fifth planned
capital city in India. The city, the
first phase of which is expected to
be completed by 2018, will boast of
both modern te