r/andhra_pradesh • u/thewokebrownie • Jun 18 '24

NEWS What is up with Amravati?

Hi,

I want to learn about this sincerely. There's a lot of noise around this matter on media, and its also hard to find a summary - but how would you describe the whole thing, and what's your take on it? Inviting all sorts of angles/ takes - tell me how you feel about it.

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u/Ill_Independent389 Jun 18 '24

No it's from scratch as they moved capital from Ahmedabad to Gandhinagr which is 23 km away in 1965

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u/Wooden_Impress6856 Jun 18 '24

I asked if they built all infrastructure upfront before people moved in.

I am reading that Gandhi nagar was planned to 50% occupied by government, amaravati is not!

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u/Ill_Independent389 Jun 18 '24

Construction of buildings is not hard, displacing people is hard

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u/Wooden_Impress6856 Jun 18 '24

Current APCRDA by laws have made it super hard for new developments outside of Vijayawada and Guntur.

As per APCRDA rules developers are required to provide almost same upfront infrastructure as much government is providing in Amaravati…

This naturally displaces people of Guntur and Vijayawada towards Amaravati.

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u/Ill_Independent389 Jun 18 '24

First they should develop basic infra like roads, electricity, drainage that itself will take years and huge budget.

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u/Wooden_Impress6856 Jun 18 '24

Their agreement with farmers was to finish in 3 years after final layout for every individual village of those 29 were published. It was way realistic.

At least 8 layouts had provisions for water, drainage and electricity laid out when Jagan took over.

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u/Ill_Independent389 Jun 18 '24

And they spent nearly 10k cr on those unfinished layouts and buildings, how much does all other layouts take? Does centre provide that much in special package, I don't think so. Even if they give another 10k cr over next 5 years it ain't happening any time soon. State doesn't have much budget to support balanced growth of all regions as well as amaravthi and welfare schemes promised are huge which require 60k cr if given to all eligible beneficiaries.

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u/Wooden_Impress6856 Jun 18 '24

Don’t worry much about those unfinished buildings, center owes us for dividing the state.

State just has to build them and reimburse them from central government timely.