The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Wednesday decided to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi for foundation stone laying ceremony of the new State capital Amaravati on October 22 coinciding with the Dussehra festial.
The Cabinet, which met in Rajahmundry with Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in chair, also decided to send a team to visit the capital cities of Central Asian countries of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan to build Amaravati up to global standards. “Modi has made some suggestions in this regard. Accordingly a team will visit these two countries to study their capital plans”, said State Information Minister Palle Raghunath Reddy. The Cabinet decided to adopt Swiss Challenge method to award the contract for the construction of capital city and invite the Governments of Singapore and Japan. “The first phase of the capital will be ready by 2018”, he said.
The Cabinet also decided that the construction work of the multi purpose Polavarm project will also be launched on Dussehra day. Meanwhile, Chandrababu Naidu said that his Government will work to develop Andhra Pradesh into the “Eastern Gateway of India”. He said that the water problem of the State will be solved through the interlinking of the rivers.