AP keen on capital between V'wada-Guntur
New Delhi: The Andhra Pradesh Government has indicated its preference for locating the new State Capital between Vijayawada and Guntur. This was conveyed by Municipal Administration Minister P Narayana to Sivaramakrishnan Committee set by the Centre to identify the location for the new Capital of Andhra Pradesh.
The Sivaramakrishnan Committee Report is expected to be submitted by August-end, but ahead of that the panel will meet Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in the State on July 26.
After Telangana was created, the Centre had set up the Sivaramakrishnan Committee, with the mandate to recommend the place where the new Capital of Andhra Pradesh could be set up. Before it finalises its recommendations, the Andhra Pradesh Government wanted to make its own representation to the panel.
Emerging from the meeting with Sivaramakrishnan Committee, Minister Narayana said the State Government felt that the Vijayawada-Guntur region was ideal as it was centrally located. While Visakhapatnam was in one corner, the Rayalaseema region was in yet another corner, he added.
The land requirement could be in the region of 15,000-20,000 acres. The land is available, which is outside the cyclone-prone region of Avanigadda. The Centre had specified certain parameters in selecting the location of the new Capital and the Vijayawada-Guntur region would meet all the requirements, he said.
'Road connectivity is good and it has four-lane highways. Vijayawada has the distinction of being the largest railway junction and rail connectivity is good.
The River Krishna flows through the region and there would be no water problem. Vijayawada Airport is to be upgraded as International Airport and as such air connectivity to the new State capital would be good,' the minister said.
Narayana also made known the State Government's preference for locating the new institutions granted in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014.
A Tribal University could come up in Vizianagaram, Petroleum University in Kakinada, IIM in Visakhapatnam, IIT in Tirupati, AIIMS in Guntur, IIITin Anantapur and NIT in Kurnool, besides the Central University in Vijayawada. No decisions have been atekn as yet,' he added.
News Posted: 23 July, 2014
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