AP Report 2019-final

Assistance to Develop the Government Infrastructure and the Capital City Region
The Andhra Pradesh Government drew up
ambitious plans to develop Amaravati, the new
Capital City, as a modern city to serve not only
as seat of power, but to be an economic,
educational, healthcare, cultural and
recreational hub.
The key infrastructure for the development of
Amaravati, the greenfield Capital City of the
State of Andhra Pradesh can be broadly
categorised into four:
1 Government buildings and other buildings
2 Social infrastructure
3 Tier-1 trunk infrastructure
4 Tier-2 infrastructure - Land Pooling
Scheme and Others
Developing trunk infrastructure includes major
arterial road network, water, sewer trunks, seed
access road, bridges across the river Krishna,
ducts for power and communication cables
etc., which are essential for initiating
development. Land for Amaravati has been
largely pooled by Land Pooling Scheme
wherein farmers who have voluntarily pooled
their land, get a share of the developed land
in return. Accordingly, they have been allotted
returnable plots for which necessary
infrastructure has to be provided as per the
Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development
Authoriy Act 2014. In addition, Tier-2
infrastructure for other important regions needs
to be developed.
Government City and Justice City comprising
of Government buildings like Assembly,
Secretariat and Heads of Departments
buildings, Government housing, housing for the
ministers, MLAs, MLCs, Chief Minister’s
residence, Raj Bhavan and Judicial buildings
like High Court, housing for Judges, other legal
institutional buildings, etc. is of first priority for
the Government. Additionally, since the Capital
City would be housing a large number of
people, significant social infrastructure also
needs to be developed to provide services.
As can be seen from Annexure-16, the
estimated cost of Government Complex in
Amaravati is Rs.11,261 Crore. Social
infrastructure for the new Capital City is
estimated to cost Rs. 7,330 Crore. Other
infrastructure including Trunk/Tier I
infrastructure, mass transit connectivity, flood
management, and tier two infrastructure are all
estimated to cost Rs. 90,432 Crore. The total
cost estimate of the ambitious project is
Rs.1,09,023 Crore (Table 9.1).
Table 9.1 Estimated Cost of Development
of Amaravati City Infrastructure
The development of Amaravati Government
Complex in an area of 1350 acres in
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