Why Killing Amaravati, a National Disaster?

Why Killing Amaravati, a National Disaster? - Sai Nuthakki

Amaravati, a green field city initiated for the first time in 60 years in India, as a new capital of Andhra Pradesh has a tremendous potential to become a national asset and a crown jewel of urban India if developed as planned.

It is going to be a first city in India to compete with other south east Asian majors like Singapore and Hong Kong with world class infrastructure, near zero pollution, availability of natural & human resources to attract global investments and talent.

Today all the major cities in India are going thru a massive pressure on their infrastructure to support growing population migration towards these cities. It is causing urban chaos with dangerous pollution levels, lack of affordable housing, clogged transportation networks, lack of water, power and other basic amnesties for majority population impacting people’s basic living conditions apart from bleeding national GDP. A world class city like Amaravati will help in reducing the pressure on some of these urban centers in India. 
   
People are moving towards urban centers for employment and opportunities all over India and the government needs to provide more urban growth centers. A fully developed Amaravati can be a model for future urban growth and planning in India.

Amaravati provided the best model in the country for public private participation in urban land acquisition thru it’s unique, first in the nation, concept of land pooling. 33,000 acres of agricultural land has been acquired peacefully from 30000 small farmers without spending a dime.

But the present chief minister of Andhra Pradesh is on killing spree to eliminate already semi-finished Amaravati by creating three capitals and moving all core functionalities to Vishakhapatnam in the north east corner of the state for political gains. This decision has no merit from any point other than politics and so far he could not come up with any valid reason that can stand legal grounds for his action.

His actions created an ambiguity in investment environment and will have a major blow on country's investment rating and global investor confidence.

This madness of destroying a national model asset for political gains ignoring all the valuable benefits it can render, need to be stopped right away. Center must intervene immediately to protect the interests of AP and the country by mounting pressure on Jagan government to continue Amaravati  as the capital of Andhra as legally proclaimed earlier and speed up all the development activities in the capital city region. Strong constitutional measures must be taken to prevent politicians from using relocation of capitals and courts for political gains.

                                    



Comments

  1. TennisForFitnessJanuary 7, 2020 at 8:39 PM

    This is the result of electing people with known fraudulent activities and vengeance mental state. The central government should intervene and stop this madness. Unfortunately the people are divided on caste lines and the movement is not getting required support to force a change in the thinking of the A1. Only hope is divine (be it Lord Balaji or Jesus) intervention. Praying for the best.

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