All set for relaunch of Amaravati capital works by Prime Minister on May 2, says A.P. Urban Development Minister Narayana

Prime Minister Modi to relaunch Amaravati capital works, including iconic structures and government complexes, aiming for completion in 3 years.

All is set for the relaunch of Amaravati capital works by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 2. The Prime Minister will be laying the foundation for construction of five towers of the Amaravati Government Complex, High Court, Legislative Assembly Building, etc.

Ahead of the Prime Minister’s visit to Amaravati, Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development P. Narayana told The Hindu on Tuesday that the government aimed at completing the construction of the capital city as per the master plan in three years.

Mr. Narayana said the AP Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA) had approved projects worth more than ₹64,000 crore, of which works costing ₹43,000 crore were awarded to contractors.

He said the Prime Minister would lay stone for works such as 250-ft.-high Amaravati iconic structure, Amaravati Government Complex, comprising a 50-storey GAD tower and four other towers for the 4-storey Secretariat, seven-storey High Court building, and Assembly building. He would also lay stone for 4,000 flats in various apartment complexes, social infrastructure facilities such as seed access road, trunk roads, layout roads, NTR statue, Happy Nest, etc.

The APCRDA completed more than 80% works related to the arrangements for the Prime Minister’s programme, the Minister said, adding that all government complexes would come up in an extent of 1,450 acres.

Tenders had been called for works costing about ₹41,000 crore, and ₹5,000 crore released to the contractors before 2019, the Minister said. The change in guard led to legal, financial, social and administrative problems, Mr. Narayana added.

He alleged that by proposing three capitals, the previous YSRCP government destroyed the progress of works, and it took almost nine months for the NDA government to overcome the hurdles.