Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who is determined to build a world-class capital city, is spending minimum one hour every day on this issue. While studying the report given by the US-based McKinsey company on the capital, Mr Naidu is using Google maps to study the availability of land in the districts.
Sources said McKinsey has designed the buildings with 44 floors. They also proposed to build office and residential buildings on both sides of river Krishna. According to its plan, from Vijayawada towards Jaggaiahpet, residential buildings have been planned while the government buildings will be from Vijayawada towards Guntur.
A bird’s eye view will reveal that the buildings are arranged in a pattern to read ANDHRA. One of the close aides of Mr Naidu said if the state government wants to name the capital after NTR, the design of the buildings can be changed to NTR instead of ANDHRA.
Two four-lane bridges are proposed to connect both sides of river Krishna; and one is for heavy vehicles and the second one is for the general public. Mr Naidu is very particular about having a river front city.
Meanwhile, the state may get bullet trains within six months as the China railway team, which met the Mr Naidu on Thursday, told him that if the state government provides required land to them, they can build the bullet train.
Work on Vijayawada Outer ring road to begin soon
Work on the Outer Ring Road of Vijayawada city is likely to commence within a month as the land acquisition process has been completed. National Highway Authority of India’s, Vijayawada project director G. Sridhar said that the contractor of the ORR — Gammon India is likely to start the work within a month.
Once the 103 km ORR linking Guntur, Krishna and West Godavari districts, starting from Chinakakani in Guntur district to Chinoutapalli in Krishna district, is completed, it would ease traffic congestion in Vijayawada city through which two National Highways pass.
Over 50,000 vehicles plying on these National Highways are mainly responsible for the regular traffic jams.
