Andhra govt sets up panel to study report suggesting three capitals
Live MintHyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh government on Sunday set up a 'high-power committee’ to examine recommendations of the G. N. Rao-led expert committee on decentralization of the state’s capital between Amaravati, Visakhapatnam and Kurnool. On 20 December, the expert committee, formed by the state government to look into AP’s development, recommended having Visakhapatnam as the executive capital and Kurnool as the legal capital, where the High Court would be, and Amaravati as the legislative capital. According to the order issued on Sunday by Nilam Sawhney, chief secretary, AP government, the new committee will comprise Buganna Rajendranath, state minister for finance and legislative affairs, Audimulapu Suresh, state education minister, director general of police, chief secretary, secretary and others. Ever since the expert committee made its recommendations public, farmers in the Amaravati capital city region have been up in arms against it, given that Naidu’s government had pooled-in 33,000 acres of farm land from hundreds of farmers in the region to develop Amaravati.