Vijayawada: The basic infrastructure for contractors and workers in capital city Amaravati will be ready within a fortnight, municipal administration minister P Narayana said, adding that the govt has asked CRDA officials to focus on the issue as contractors are likely to relaunch construction works in a couple of weeks.
Narayana, who inspected the progress of ongoing works in the capital city on Tuesday, said the govt is readying plans to make sand available to contractors. “We have set a target to complete all major projects in the capital city within three years. Any state needs a capital. Unfortunately, Andhra Pradesh is the only state in the country without a capital city. The previous YSRCP regime played a cruel game with the development and future of the state by denouncing Amaravati,” he said.
He said it took them nearly 10 months to streamline the capital city project as YSRCP’s decisions caused large-scale destruction to the state on all fronts. “We managed to revive the Amaravati project only due to the brand image of chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu. Big contractors who ran away from the state have returned and joined hands with the govt after Naidu took over as chief minister. We have finalised the tenders for major works worth Rs 43,000 crore in the last few weeks. We are just days away from kickstarting the works in Amaravati,” the minister announced.
He said buildings for officials including secretaries, principal secretaries, MLAs, and MLCs were almost complete before TDP demitted office in 2019. “The YSRCP govt took a shocking decision and left all those structures unattended for nearly five years. We roped in experts from Madras IIT to study the strength of the structures as many of them were submerged in waters for the last five years. Luckily, the experts team gave the green signal to resume the works,” he said, while adding that the delay resulted in massive escalation of costs.
Asserting that the state govt is determined to complete all structures within the stipulated time frame as they have secured loans from World Bank, ADB, Hudco, and other multinational agencies, Narayana said the loans will be cleared through monetization of land available in the capital city. The state govt will not pay a penny from the exchequer to clear the debts, he added.
Narayana, who inspected the progress of ongoing works in the capital city on Tuesday, said the govt is readying plans to make sand available to contractors. “We have set a target to complete all major projects in the capital city within three years. Any state needs a capital. Unfortunately, Andhra Pradesh is the only state in the country without a capital city. The previous YSRCP regime played a cruel game with the development and future of the state by denouncing Amaravati,” he said.
He said it took them nearly 10 months to streamline the capital city project as YSRCP’s decisions caused large-scale destruction to the state on all fronts. “We managed to revive the Amaravati project only due to the brand image of chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu. Big contractors who ran away from the state have returned and joined hands with the govt after Naidu took over as chief minister. We have finalised the tenders for major works worth Rs 43,000 crore in the last few weeks. We are just days away from kickstarting the works in Amaravati,” the minister announced.
He said buildings for officials including secretaries, principal secretaries, MLAs, and MLCs were almost complete before TDP demitted office in 2019. “The YSRCP govt took a shocking decision and left all those structures unattended for nearly five years. We roped in experts from Madras IIT to study the strength of the structures as many of them were submerged in waters for the last five years. Luckily, the experts team gave the green signal to resume the works,” he said, while adding that the delay resulted in massive escalation of costs.
Asserting that the state govt is determined to complete all structures within the stipulated time frame as they have secured loans from World Bank, ADB, Hudco, and other multinational agencies, Narayana said the loans will be cleared through monetization of land available in the capital city. The state govt will not pay a penny from the exchequer to clear the debts, he added.
