Foolproof Arrangements for Modi’s Amaravati Visit to Be Completed Today: Narayana
Narayana said the present government resumed Amaravati works immediately after taking office and resolved pending legal hurdles
Vijayawada: Minister for municipal administration and urban development Ponguru Narayana said on Tuesday that 90 per cent of the arrangements for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Amaravati are complete, with the remaining works to be finished by April 30.
Narayana inspected the venue, parking zones, and approach routes for the Prime Minister’s “Restart Amaravati” programme behind the Secretariat at Velagapudi. He reviewed the preparations with officials and said Modi would arrive in Amaravati at 3.25 pm on May 2.
He recalled that 34,000 acres were voluntarily contributed by farmers in 50 days for the Amaravati capital project, calling it a record. He said the Amaravati master plan, prepared with Singapore’s support under Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s vision, would be fully implemented.
Narayana said plans include 365 km of trunk roads and 1,500 km of layout roads. He added that work worth ₹41,000 crore was initiated before 2019, and ₹5,000 crore in bills were cleared. He criticised the previous government for halting progress by introducing reverse tenders and judicial preview, which delayed the capital’s construction.
He said the present government resumed Amaravati works immediately after taking office and resolved pending legal hurdles. Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate 43 development works worth thousands of crores and formally relaunch Amaravati’s construction. Narayana said the capital works would be completed within three years.
The Chief Minister, he added, personally invited farmers from the 29 Amaravati villages to attend the May 2 event and assured them that the government would examine the feasibility of enacting a law in Parliament to safeguard Amaravati’s status as the capital.
Eluru district in-charge minister Nadendla Manohar urged party leaders and the public to ensure the success of Modi’s rally. At a meeting in Eluru, he instructed TDP MLAs, coordinators, and coalition partners to mobilise maximum participation.
NTR district in-charge minister Satya Kumar Yadav, addressing officials on Tuesday, said Naidu was taking the Prime Minister’s visit as a matter of prestige and called for foolproof arrangements to showcase Amaravati as a greenfield capital.
