It is known that Andhra Pradesh was severely impacted by the state bifurcation. While Telangana was divided with Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh was left with no proper capital city. The budget was also in deficit in 2014 when the bifurcation was done. Things turned worse in the last eight years.
When the state was divided, the Telugu Desam Party came to power in the state and proposed Amaravati as the capital city. Thousands of acres were polled for the capital city. TDP chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu wanted to build a world-class capital in Amaravati.
But things turned upside down after the government changed. The construction works started by TDP between 2014-19 did not progress with YCP coming to power. If YCP would have taken forward the Amaravati idea then the state would be seeing a capital in making. But the ruling party proposed three capitals for decentralization of development.
Though the YCP disowned Amravati, a popular American magazine deals with interior design and landscaping Architectural Digest called Amaravati a futuristic city that is being built. In total, the magazine picked six cities and includes Amaravati. This tells the value Amaravati holds.
The magazine said that the plan of Amaravati is such that around 60 percent of the area where the capital is proposed has greenery or water. Saying that the emerging technologies are proposed to be used for it, the magazine said that Amaravati city would have been the most sustainable in the world.
“Though this masterplan for Amaravati conceived by Foster+Partners is no longer happening, it does offer great insight into what a futuristic city could look like. In the the plan, a government complex would anchor the city, and a large central green space would span the city’s centre—inspired by Lutyens’ Delhi and New York’s Central Park,” the magazine said.
Smart Forest City(Mexico),Telosa(USA), The Line(Saudi Arabia), Oceanix Busan(South Korea), Chengdu Sky Valley(China), and Amaravati(India) are the 6 most futuristic cities being built around the world as per the American magazine. “Proposed across continents, these cities show what our world could look like in 50 years,” the decades-old magazine said about the capitals.
