Overview

• Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to invite him to the May 2 groundbreaking ceremony for the renewed Amaravati capital city project.
• The Rs 64,910-crore project, stalled from 2019 to 2024, has been revived with Rs 15,000 crore in central aid and $1.6 billion in multilateral funding from the World Bank and ADB.
• The master plan, designed by Foster and Partners, envisions a 217.23 sq km city between Vijayawada and Guntur, aiming to house 3.5 million people and create 1.5 million jobs by 2050.
• Naidu pledged Andhra Pradesh's support to Modi's leadership on national security following a recent terror attack and welcomed the PM's suggestion to adopt the Miyawaki afforestation model for the city's development.
• The project aligns with the Swarnandhra 2047 vision, positioning Amaravati as a world-class administrative and economic hub modeled after global cities like Amsterdam and Singapore.