Andhra CM restarts Amaravati capital works after 5-year hiatus
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday restarted the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) project works here.
The works at Rayapudi village in the capital region were relaunched after a hiatus of five years, following the erstwhile YSRCP government abandoning Naidu’s ‘dream project’. Later, addressing a press conference at the CRDA office at Rayapudi village, the CM said the cost of rebuilding Amaravati capital city rose by Rs 7,000 crore in the last five years, and reached Rs 52,000 crore now.
The tenders for 55 capital city works, which were invited at Rs 42,519 crore between 2014 and 2019 got inflated by Rs 7,000 crore due to the alleged negligence of the previous YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led government, he said.
“Because all those (capital) works got stalled, we are making new estimates. Because of their (YSRCP government’s) deeds, the financial burden has increased by Rs 7,000 crore to Rs 52,000 crore. We will start the works with Rs 52,000 crore,” the CM said.
The CM further said that the CRDA office could start functioning in four months and all regions of the state would be developed along with Amaravati. Noting that Amaravati would be a ‘self-financing’ city, Naidu said some more land would be left in the 54,000-acre greenfield capital city after developing it.
The TDP chief announced that the centrally located Amaravati would emerge as a green energy hub equipped with electric vehicle charging stations, and other environmental friendly features.
The CM said he would visit the futuristic city of Neom being built in Saudi Arabia at an appropriate time to absorb some best practices being implemented there.
The state will study the global best practices and improve Amaravati to ultimately make it the pride of the nation, not just Andhra Pradesh, he added. Further, Naidu stressed that all the latest advancements in the realms of technology and infrastructure will be incorporated in Amaravati.
