The dream of new Andhra Pradesh capital Amaravati with the world class infrastructure facilities has started materialising.
On a day when Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu laid foundation stone for a state-of-the-art “Medical City” project, the newly built headquarters of the AP Police also started functioning.
laying the foundation stone of Medical City, an Indo-UK collaboration, the Chief Minister announced that it will go a long way in making Amaravati the hub of Medical tourist hub.
“Andhra Pradesh is giving top most priority to the health sector. The State is going to receive huge investments in this sector and 20 new medical Colleges will come up for which the agreements have already been signed,” he said.
The Medical City project, with the participation of Kings College london and the State Government is coming up at Yerrapalem in Mangalgiri under Amaravati.
The project will be built on 150 acres of area at a cost of Rs 1700 crore. While the first phase a 250 beds hospital and many other facilities will be created. Schools for nursing and paramedics will also be built.
While the first phase will be ready by 2019 the entire project will be completed by 2022. The Capital Region Development Authority will provide the basic facilities for the development of infrastructure.
Interestingly the farmers and their families who had given 30 acres of their land will be provided free medical care.
Earlier the Chief Minister Naidu opened the five stories building of the State Police Headquarters in Amaravati.
The building with the state of art facilities was built at the cost of Rs 40 crore in ten months. Apart from the DGP the building will have offices of the heads of various wings of the police including the Additional DGPs and IGPs. The first floor will be occupied by the CID and the last floor will have the office of the DGP and a conference hall.
Since the bifurcation of the state in June 2014 the AP DGP was functioning from a temporary facility at Vijayawada and heads of other wings were functioning from Hyderabad.