Naidu’s Amaravati dilemma: where to start and how to proceed?

Naidu’s Amaravati dilemma: where to start and how to proceed? The Chief Minister, after a field visit to the capital region and witnessing the state of ‘disuse and destruction caused by the Jagan Mohan Reddy government’, invites suggestions from people on the way forward, and vows to take up the project on priority.

While welcoming suggestions from people on how to develop the Amaravati capital city, particularly in the view of the “devastation caused to the infrastructure projects in the last five years under the YSRCP term,” Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said after a field visit to the capital region on June 20 (Thursday), that “he is not able to understand what to do, where to start and how to proceed.”

Mr. Naidu was addressing the media and the Amaravati farmers at under-construction CRDA Project Office.

Before addressing the media, he visited the site where Praja Vedika once existed, and which was demolished by the YSRCP government, and saw the debris left there as its is.

Mr. Naidu also visited the site where foundation stone for the Amaravati capital city was laid at Uddandarayunipalem. He also visited the buildings under construction, which included the multi-storeyed MLA and MLC apartments (G+12) at Rayapudi, All India Service multi-storeyed apartments (G+12 floors), bungalows meant for the Principal Secretary and Secretary, Secretariat and General Administration Department Towers, High Court building, Judicial Complex and Additional Court Halls, E6 Trunk Road, NGO Quarters, apartments meant for Type-1, Type-2 Officers and Group D employees, judges’ bungalows and Ministers’ bungalows.

Mr. Naidu prostrated at the place where the foundation stone was laid for Amaravati and touched the soil there. Later, he interacted with the women farmers who performed prayers at the place for 1,631 days.

Mr. Naidu said the government would release a White Paper on the status of the Amaravati capital city project very soon so that its actual position could be understood.

The Chief Minister directed the officials to remove the thorny bushes spread across the capital city so that the extent of damage caused could be seen and understood.