The Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore Government is to establish Amaravati Partnership Office (APO) in Singapore exclusively to promote Amaravati, the Greenfield Capital city and to coordinate with investors, technologies, and developers like Singapore consortium in developing Amaravati, grounding investments and trade.
The APO has been set up to coordinate the master development of startup area in Amaravati, enhancing capacities of different departments of Andhra Pradesh and to promote bilateral trade and investments. APO also will help imparting skill development, branding, and bring in knowledge sharing by coordinating with Singapore institutes like Center for livabale Cities for enhancing livability of Amaravati to world’s best standards.
Giving impetus for the establishment of activities and results of APO, Singapore Trade and Industry Minister Iswaran is going to visit Amaravati on Friday to discuss the promotion of development activities as well as investment and trade initiatives of the State.
As a prelude to Singapore’s Trade and Commerce Minister Iswaran visit, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu conducted a brief teleconference with Minister, P Narayana, MA&UD, GoAP, Chief Secretary Dinesh Kumar, Spl CS to CM, Satish Chandra, Principal Secretary to CM G Sai Prasad, Principal Secretary Energy, I&I, CRDA, Ajay Jain, Amaravati Development Corporation Chair person lakshmi Parthasaradhi, CRDA Commissioner Sridhar, Special commissioner Ramamanohar rao and Addl Commissioner, Shan Mohan, CM said, “The greenfield capital city, which would become the economic hub of the world, has received another feather in its cap.
It’s a great gesture for development of Amaravati that the Singapore Government established an office in singapore exclusively to promote the trade and economic activity of Amaravati.
Amaravati will be the property of all the five crore andhrites. I am determined to build the world’s the best capital city of Amaravati which will be a boon for the State for enhancing the economy and generating substantial employment opportunities. Even people studied in backward regions should get employment in Amaravati and that gives me immense satisfaction. I am thankful to the Prime minister and central government for quick approval of MoUs entered between Govt of Singapore and Andhra Pradesh.
The officials informed Naidu that the Economic Development team of Singapore’s Amaravati Partnership Office (APO) is closely working with officers from APEDB(Andhra Pradesh economic development Board and APCRDA (AP Capital region Development Authority education,Enhancing Public libraries, “29 villages project” by Urban Sketchers, AP-Singapore Business Council, Joint Economic Action Plan have been discussed in the recent JIWC(Joint implementation working committee), said Ajay Jain.
Chief Minister enquired about the issues discussed in Joint Implementation Working Committee that met three times till now. Principal Secretary responded that setting up of Amaravati Planning, Design & Research Institute is on anvil and workforce skills education is being implemented. He explained that the discussions of the officials about ’29 villages project’ with urban sketchers are at final stage. CM directed the principal secretary that AP – Singapore Business Council need to be strengthened to enhance the investment flow. CM said, “The Business council is capable of attracting more investments into the capital city. The joint economic action plan needs to be implemented alongside construction activities of the capital city. The implementation of joint economic plan with Singapore government results in trade surplus for the state. The fruits of surplus shall increase the credibility of Amaravati and this government further”.
The CM thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Cabinet for quick approval of MoUs of AP and Singapore.
As a conclusion, Chief Minister directed the APCRDA to bring in the urban planning principles and livability standards of Singapore for the construction of Amaravati. He enquired about the first visit of 34 farmers/landowners to singapore who gave their land for capital building from 31st October to November 4th. The second visit scheduled on 28th November to 1st December to make farmers as a part of construction of World class capital city will also be coordinated by Singapore offcials.
In the context of Trade Delegations, IE(International Enterprises) Singapore on multiple occasions have been instrumental in encouraging key investors from Singapore to participate in development of Amaravati. IE Singapore has conducted Asia Singapore Investors’ meet in Singapore wherein a special breakout session on Amaravati was also conducted on 26th September, wherein Singapore investors have participated in large numbers. A few of these investors include TerraFirma, a product that helps stiffen soil and earthworks; SP Power on their district cooling systems for Amaravati Government Complex; companies related to electric cars, to name a few. APCRDA and related agencies will select best of the technologies and investments that enhance the livability quotient of Amaravati through transparent process and related preparatory work of inviting RFPs/RFQs is being undertaken Said Ajay Jain.