On 1 April, 2015, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. N Chandrababu Naidu announced that the state's new capital city will be named after the historically significant city of Amaravati. In 2014, following the separation of Telangana from the state of Andhra Pradesh, both states had agreed to retain Hyderabad as a joint capital for a decade. It became apparent, though, that Andhra Pradesh would eventually need a new capital. This caused much dissent since Hyderabad, the capital of undivided Andhra Pradesh, had a robust economic and infrastructural foundation and is considered one of the prominent IT hubs of India. CM Naidu, however, plans to build Amaravati into an enviable modern city with state-of-art infrastructure.
The proposed capital city of Amaravati is located in central Andhra Pradesh, somewhere between two main cities – Guntur and Vijayawada. The name of the proposed capital is derived from the ancient city of Amaravati, which is also located in the same region. The Andhra cabinet not only approved the name of the capital but also gave the nod to the master plan (first phase) prepared by the government agencies of Singapore.
On 1 April, 2015, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. N Chandrababu Naidu announced that the state's new capital city will be named after the historically significant city of Amaravati. In 2014, following the separation of Telangana from the state of Andhra Pradesh, both states had agreed to retain Hyderabad as a joint capital for a decade. It became apparent, though, that Andhra Pradesh would eventually need a new capital. This caused much dissent since Hyderabad, the capital of undivided Andhra Pradesh, had a robust economic and infrastructural foundation and is considered one of the prominent IT hubs of India. CM Naidu, however, plans to build Amaravati into an enviable modern city with state-of-art infrastructure.
The proposed capital city of Amaravati is located in central Andhra Pradesh, somewhere between two main cities – Guntur and Vijayawada. The name of the proposed capital is derived from the ancient city of Amaravati, which is also located in the same region. The Andhra cabinet not only approved the name of the capital but also gave the nod to the master plan (first phase) prepared by the government agencies of Singapore.
