Students from Vijayawada say 250 acres of land is sufficient to build AP capital
Vijayawada: While the AP government proposing to build a capital city that primarily consists of government infrastructure in around 30,000 acres in Guntur district, the students of School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada, gave feasible plans that showed requirement of 250 acres of land to accommodate important structures of the government.
The students came up with workable plans in which all the important structures like Assembly, Secretariat, MLA quarters, CM’s residence, Raj Bhavan, public plaza and others in 250 acres of land can be built.
The architecture students, who worked on the plans for more than three months, presented the final workable plans at the international seminar — ‘Shaping our cities for smart, inclusive and sustainable future’ organised on the college premises.
Of the four plans presented, three are done suitably for Mangalagiri region and one for Thotapalli beside Brahmalingam Cheruvu near Gannavaram. Both the sites selected by students have an area of less than 300 acres and can accommodate all capital needs except the High Court since the government had decided to have it in Vizag or any other city in the state.
In the plan drawn by Ashita Agarwal, Adersh Sreedharan, Sravan Satheesh, Rahul Krishnan and Gupta for Mangalagiri region, Secretariat takes 1.75 lakh square metres, that is 43 acres. Similarly, Assembly takes 75,000 square metres, Raj Bhavan 2,500 square metres, CM residence 1,500 square metres and each MLA quarter takes 500 square metres and rest for museum, botanical garden, public plaza and others.
The plan drawn for Thotapalli, which gives river front capital, needs 300 acres and would be most ecological place, said the students.
The students of both architecture and planning departments gave 3D walk-through presentation of the plans before experts who came from across the country.
Students would soon take these plans to the notice of the state government.
SPAV director N. Sridharan, Dean Sk Abdul Razzak, World Bank representative M.S. Gayatri Singh, Ratoola Kundu from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Sucharita Sen from JNU, Delhi, and other experts were present.
