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A projected slug bid betwixt Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai and Amaravati, restarting stalled projects, and the interlinking of the Vamsadhara, Godavari, Krishna, and Pennar rivers. These are immoderate of the large projects that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu announced Saturday arsenic helium brought his favored strategy of processing Amaravati arsenic the authorities superior retired of the acold storage, wherever it had been for the past 5 years.
Announcing plans to resume the ambitious project, Naidu said that Amaravati would beryllium reconstructed arsenic a “self-financing project” and that the World Bank had “already fixed its consent to authorisation a loan” for the project.
The project, which had been announced by Naidu’s authorities during its erstwhile tenure, had been kept connected the backburner betwixt 2019 and 2024 nether erstwhile Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.
“The superior metropolis of Amaravati volition travel to beingness precise soon,” Naidu said. “Some vested interests, peculiarly those who were astatine the helm of the affairs earlier, had resorted to mendacious propaganda that lakhs of crores of rupees volition person to beryllium spent for gathering Amaravati”.
Naidu besides unveiled plans to make the larboard metropolis of Visakhapatnam arsenic the state’s fiscal capital, saying that a precocious tribunal seat and industries volition beryllium acceptable up astatine Kurnool.
In his speech, Naidu said that his government’s “Vision-2047” program is lone aimed astatine processing the authorities and “the 420s” cannot recognize his vision. “At conscionable 1 call, 29,881 farmers came guardant to donate 34,241 acres successful the Amaravati region,” the CM said.
He besides accused the erstwhile YSR authorities of having “wasted 5 important years successful the guise that determination are nary funds”, adding that Amaravati volition beryllium developed without spending immoderate funds and that it would beryllium a “a excavation for generating employment and for implementing much payment schemes for the poor”.
Calling Amaravati “the superior for the Gods”, Naidu said renowned institutions similar VIT, SRM, and Amrita University had already started their operations here, portion others specified arsenic the Xavier School of Management volition travel suit soon. He besides said residential towers for ministers, MLAs and All India Service officials volition beryllium completed soon astatine Amaravati.
“I person already made an entreaty to the Centre for a slug bid covering Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai and Amaravati. The World Bank has already fixed its consent to authorisation a indebtedness for Amaravati. I privation each the works to beryllium completed connected time,” helium further said, adding that the Centre has already travel guardant to widen Rs 15,000 crore assistance to the state.
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