Vijayawada: The 198 pages of the Amaravati capital city detailed master plan is with full of dreams of the government of Andhra Pradesh. The Capital Regional Development Authority (CRDA) and Singapore designers mainly focused on creation of infrastructure, employment, riverfront buildings and 20 per cent land for greenery, flood-resistant system and heritage and tourism road works in the plan.
As per the plan, 6,910 hectares is allotted for residential area while 3,385 hectares for commercial, industrial purpose and 1,950 hectares for civic facilities and 6,390 hectares for parks and open space. Actually, 7,745 hectares was allotted in the earlier plan, but now it has been reduced to only 3,385 hectares in the present plan. On the other hand, 650 hectares land has been additionally allo-tted for residential buildings. Besides, 87 kilometers internal roads and 22 kilometers length Metro Rail is also mentioned in the detailed master plan. The government had set the target of providing 1.5 million jobs and envisaged 2.5 million residents in the capital city by 2050.
Apart from this, 23 per cent land is allotted for residential buildings, 2 per cent land for markets, 9 per cent for commercial usage, 6 per cent land for industries, 19 per cent land for parks, public places, 14 per cent area for infrastructure, 9 per cent land for water resources and public utilities and 6 per cent land for village needs. However, a few changes are made in the present draft notification master plan against the capital plan.
Meanwhile, Vaikuntapuram, Harichandrapu-ram, Pedamadduru, Vadlamanu and Pedaparimi villages, which were in the previous plan are not mentioned in the present plan. It means the villages are removed from the capital villages list. Likewise, the villages of Kotikalapudi, Moolapadu, Trilochana-puram are also not included in the present plan.
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