Amaravati Redevelopment Plan: Based on Singapore, 51% green cover, timeline and the cost

According to a report by ET, Amaravati is being made into a city like no other in India. The city is being built on a 217 sq km area in the open field in Guntur district. There will be nine theme cities built within Amaravati, including government, finance, justice, health, sports, media and electronics. The nearby towns like Vijayawada and Guntur, while not included in the redevelopment plan, will be like what Noida and Gurgaon are to Delhi. (Image: Foster and Partners website)

Amaravati is set to have 51% green space as per the design. Singapore is the inspiration for this metropolis, and two Singaporean consultants hired by the government are creating the concept. It will thereafter have a world class feel, thanks to the involvement of additional foreign advisors and architects. Andhra Pradesh Municipal Administration Minister P Narayana said that Singapore, China, Japan, Russia, Malaysia and other countries were visited to craft the best designs for Amaravati. The city will be designed in a way so that all districts benefit financially. (Image: Foster and Partners website)

Canals for navigation around the city and linking an island in the Krishna River are two of the innovative features of the Amaravati city on the drawing board. These are included into the layout of Andhra Pradesh's new capital, which was designed after Telangana took over Hyderabad three years ago, leaving the state without a capital. Amaravati will have a 10% waterbody cover, including a 30-kilometre riverfront of the Krishna and surrounded by canals all around. (Image: Foster and Partners website)

After the land pooling notification was issued on January 1, 2015 for Amaravati as capital city, farmers handed over 34,000 acres of land to the government by February 28, 2015. Chandrababu Naidu now wants all the latest technologies to be present in the city, and according to the ET report quoted earlier, he asked officers whether Amaravati could just have plug points and no fuel stations as he wanted only electric cars to run there. (Image: Foster and Partners website)

P Narayana on Sunday said here that the Amaravati capital city development works will be completed in two-and-a-half years' time. "In the coming two-and-a-half years' time, we will complete the development works of state capital Amaravati," Narayana said. Tenders worth Rs 48,000 crore were called in the past to ensure that all amenities are made available in the majority of the area in the capital, and that bills of Rs 9,000 crore were already paid. The capital development master plan devised in the past would be implemented, especially in three phases. The first phase of city building development works would cost Rs 48,000 crore, he said, and added that the second phase would focus on constructing metro rail infrastructure. (Image: Foster and Partners website)