AP will build Amaravati house even if centre stops funds: Sajjala
1 year, 5 months ago

AP will build Amaravati house even if centre stops funds: Sajjala

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Adviser to state government Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy on Saturday declared that Jagan Mohan Reddy government will bear the entire expenditure of constructing 50,000 houses in Amaravati in case the union government stops funds for the YSRC government’s mega housing programme. Ramakrishna Reddy, along with housing minister Jogi Ramesh, social welfare minister Merugu Nargarjuna and Housing MD Lakshmisha, visited Venkatapalem in Amaravati to inspect the arrangements being made for the launch of the housing construction programme by Chief Minister Y.S. Ramakrishna Reddy said maintained that even if the centre is not willing to share the cost of construction of these houses, the state government is ready to bear the entire cost burden. The government adviser suspected that TD chief N. Chandrababu Naidu’s conspiracies to deny land to poor in Amaravati will continue, like he had done by filing court cases in the past through proxies.

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Andhra Pradesh approves Rs 24,276 crore for Amaravati infrastructure projects
6 days, 18 hours ago

Andhra Pradesh approves Rs 24,276 crore for Amaravati infrastructure projects

India Today  

The Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority, chaired by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, has approved infrastructure projects worth Rs 24,276 crore for the development of greenfield capital Amaravati, Municipal Minister P Narayana announced on Monday. "The 43rd CRDA meeting approved Rs 24,276 crore funds for the construction of trunk roads, layouts, and iconic bhavans in Amaravati capital," he stated. …

Amaravati set for transformation as projects worth Rs 11,000 crore approved
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Amaravati set for transformation as projects worth Rs 11,000 crore approved

India Today  

In a significant boost to Amaravati's development, the Capital Region Development Authority has approved projects worth Rs 11,467 crore. As part of the plan, Rs 2,498 crore has been allocated for constructing 360 kilometres of trunk roads aimed at enhancing connectivity within the capital region. Water management infrastructure, including reservoirs and gravity canals across Pala Vagu and Kondaveeti Vagu, will …

London architects to design Amaravati towers
3 weeks, 5 days ago

London architects to design Amaravati towers

Hindustan Times  

London-based architects Norman Foster and Partners is back into action in the Andhra Pradesh capital of Amaravati by bagging the contract for designing the new government complex, which forms the central focus of the 217-sqkm capital city, officials aware of the matter said on Tuesday. London architects to design Amaravati towers The AP Capital Region Development Authority approved the tenders …

APCRDA to sign agreement with World Bank, ADB for Amaravati capital city loan
1 month, 1 week ago

APCRDA to sign agreement with World Bank, ADB for Amaravati capital city loan

Hindustan Times  

In yet another step towards construction of Andhra Pradesh capital city of Amaravati, senior officials of the AP Capital Region Development Authority on Tuesday held negotiations with the representatives of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank in New Delhi to sign an agreement for securing a loan of US $1.786 bn for the project, people familiar with the …

Amaravati Project to Launch in December
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Amaravati Project to Launch in December

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Municipal administration and urban development minister Ponguru Narayana on Saturday indicated that construction work at the new capital Amaravati is likely to start from December 1. He disclosed that Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu is keen on completing the Amaravati capital project within four years.“We are proceeding with our plans keeping this target,” Narayana said. CREDAI Andhra Pradesh chairman …

Amaravati works: Legislators’ residential complex to be ready in 9 months
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Amaravati works: Legislators’ residential complex to be ready in 9 months

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu is speeding up the construction of capital Amaravati and has initiated a temporary ‘jungle clearance’ exercise. Urban development minister Ponguru Narayana said Amaravati would be constructed by following the original Master Plan with the aim of AP having “one of the world’s top five capital cities.” The plan was to be implemented in three …

AP HC Stays Construction of Houses for Poor at R-5 Zone in Amaravati
1 year, 4 months ago

AP HC Stays Construction of Houses for Poor at R-5 Zone in Amaravati

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Through an interim order, the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday stayed the construction of houses in the R-5 Zone of capital region Amaravati. AP government sources said it would file an SLP in the Supreme Court for relief against the high court’s interim order. The High Court Bench observed: “Prima facie, this court is of the opinion that …

CM Jagan: AP govt stands by poor, Opposition anti-poor
1 year, 4 months ago

CM Jagan: AP govt stands by poor, Opposition anti-poor

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has lashed out at the Opposition Telugu Desam, Jana Sena and others for “creating legal hurdles” to the construction of 50,793 houses for poor women at a cost of Rs 1,370 crore in Amaravati. We are committed to providing social justice to the poor.” Referring to Naidu’s claim of developing Amaravati as the …

Jagan Lays Foundation Stone for Construction of 50,703 Houses For Poor In Amaravati
1 year, 4 months ago

Jagan Lays Foundation Stone for Construction of 50,703 Houses For Poor In Amaravati

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy laid the foundation stone for the construction of 50,793 houses for the poor in Amaravati on Monday. TDP supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu had vehemently opposed the construction of the houses for the poor as the land was pooled for the construction of the capital city. However, the YSRC government sought permission for construction …

Jagan to Lay Foundation for 50,793 Houses on 25 Layouts in Amaravati
1 year, 4 months ago

Jagan to Lay Foundation for 50,793 Houses on 25 Layouts in Amaravati

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy would lay the foundation stone for 50,000 houses under a mega housing project in Amaravati on Monday. Aiming to provide houses to the poor, the CM will also lay foundation stones for social infrastructure like schools, anganwadi centers, health centres and digital libraries. Jagan Reddy would lay the foundation for construction of houses …

Amaravati for all, says Jagan before housing project launch
1 year, 5 months ago

Amaravati for all, says Jagan before housing project launch

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy will set the foundation stone for the mega housing programme under Navaratnalu Pedalandariki Illu on Monday, July 24, at Krishnayapalem in Amaravati. The mega housing programme faced many hurdles, as pro-Amaravati farmers lodged petitions in courts, claiming demographic imbalance due to housing colonies for poor. Beneficiary Eepuri Jeevaratnam's house has been built as …

Jai Bheem Bharat Party starts padayatra opposing houses to poor in Amaravati
1 year, 5 months ago

Jai Bheem Bharat Party starts padayatra opposing houses to poor in Amaravati

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Jai Bheem Bharat Party founder president and advocate Jada Sravan Kumar launched a padayatra, symbolising his opposition to the allocation of houses to the poor under the YSR Congress government's Navaratnalu Pedalandariki Illu scheme in the R5 zone of Amaravati. Speaking on the occasion, Sravan Kumar questioned the rationale behind the YSRC leaders granting houses to the poor in …

Jagan Seeks Sites Without Legal Disputes to Construct Houses
1 year, 5 months ago

Jagan Seeks Sites Without Legal Disputes to Construct Houses

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has instructed officials to choose alternative lands for the construction of houses under the government’s flagship Pedalandariki Illu scheme in situations where court litigations are haunting the chosen lands. As for the construction of Tidco houses, Jagan Mohan Reddy asked the officials to make these colonies self-reliant. Examining various proposals submitted by the …

Naidu slams Jagan for 'failing' to develop Amaravati as capital city
1 year, 5 months ago

Naidu slams Jagan for 'failing' to develop Amaravati as capital city

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Telugu Desam president Nara Chandrababu Naidu has castigated Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy for his “failure” to develop Amaravati as the capital city and instead adopting a policy of AP having three capitals. Addressing the TD leaders and activists at party headquarters on Friday, he said if Amaravati had been developed as a capital city, it would have …

Complete construction of houses in Amaravati by Sankranthi 2024
1 year, 6 months ago

Complete construction of houses in Amaravati by Sankranthi 2024

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: The YSRC government aims to ensure that the construction of houses in Amaravati's R5 zone is completed soon and housewarmings are done by Sankranthi 2024. They said political parties and people’s organisations generally held agitations seeking houses for the poor but the YSRC government and chief minister Jagan Reddy fought on behalf of the poor to enable them get …

Minister invites Amaravati farmers for CM's house site meet
1 year, 6 months ago

Minister invites Amaravati farmers for CM's house site meet

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Housing minister Jogi Ramesh declared that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is creating a new history in Amaravati by providing house sites to all sections of society, especially the SC, ST, BC and minorities so that they could live in this capital city. He criticised Telugu Desam chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu for opposing the house site distribution to …

Jagan's first programme in Amaravati as CM
1 year, 6 months ago

Jagan's first programme in Amaravati as CM

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy would launch distribution of house site titles in Amaravati on Friday to nearly 51,000 poor people under the YSRC government’s flagship Navaratnalu Pedalandariki Illu programme. The distribution of house site pattas and houses to the poor in the CRDA area succeeded after the Jagan Mohan Reddy-led government overcame legal and other obstacles. Officials …

Houses for poor: TD, Amaravati farmers stage over R5 Zone lands
1 year, 6 months ago

Houses for poor: TD, Amaravati farmers stage over R5 Zone lands

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Tension prevailed at Thullur in Amaravati on Wednesday following a protest by pro-Amaravati farmers against the state government allotting house sites for the poor in the R5 Zone. Former MLA and Guntur Telugu Desam president Tenali Sravan called for the 48-hour Deeksha at Thullur against the government’s housing plan for the poor in the R5 Zone. TD leaders including …

Jagan government will change Amaravati Master Plan
1 year, 7 months ago

Jagan government will change Amaravati Master Plan

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: “There cannot be a city without workers,” the YSRC has affirmed and clarified that more changes would be made to the Amaravati master plan if and when the conditions are not satisfactory. “Chandrababu Naidu as chief minister gave only 16 yards of land for construction of houses to the poor but he is shamelessly criticising the offering of one …

Jagan prioritises construction of houses in Amaravati R5 zone
1 year, 7 months ago

Jagan prioritises construction of houses in Amaravati R5 zone

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy instructed officials to give priority to the construction of houses for the poor after distribution of house sites in Amaravati and to complete 8.64 lakh houses under the flagship Pedalandariki Illu-Navaratnalu programme. Jagan Mohan Reddy directed the officials to prepare an action plan for construction of houses and hand them over to the …

Works of housing for poor scheme gets momentum in AP
1 year, 7 months ago

Works of housing for poor scheme gets momentum in AP

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority officials are gearing up to finish the layout works of housing for the poor scheme at Nidamarru, Nekkallu, Krishnayapalem, Navuluru, Ainavolu, Mandadam, Kuragallu, Yerrabalem, Pitchukalapalem, Borupalem, and Ananthavaram. APCRDA commissioner Vivek Yadav said that the officials are readying the layouts on a war-foot basis. Jagan Mohan Reddy will distribute the house sites to …

SLPs on R5 Zone of Amaravati: SC to hear pleas next week
1 year, 7 months ago

SLPs on R5 Zone of Amaravati: SC to hear pleas next week

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: The Supreme Court will hear next week the pleas in a batch of special leave petitions opposing the R5 Zone that had allowed allotment of house sites to the poor in Amaravati. They filed these petitions in the apex court, challenging the AP high court order allowing the AP government to allot house sites to nearly 50,000 poor families. …

YSRC MP terms Naidu anti-poor', seeks Amaravati as public capital'
1 year, 7 months ago

YSRC MP terms Naidu anti-poor', seeks Amaravati as public capital'

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: YSR Congress MP Nandigam Suresh welcomed the AP High Court’s verdict allowing the government to allot housing sites to the poor in Amaravati, stating that Chandrababu Naidu of the Telugu Desam was discriminating against the poor, “who are the fuel of the society”. MP Suresh accused Chandrababu Naidu’s cohort of hindering Jagan Mohan Reddy’s plan to allot 50,000 housing …

Farmers to move SC against house sites to non-locals in Amaravati
1 year, 7 months ago

Farmers to move SC against house sites to non-locals in Amaravati

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Farmers from Amaravati will move the Supreme Court seeking a stay order on AP High Court’s recent order allowing the state government to allot house sites to the poor by setting up a separate R5 Zone. The farmers’ are apprehensive at the allotment of house sites to the economically weaker sections and poor people from outside the capital region …

HC allows AP govt to allocate house sites to poor in Amaravati
1 year, 7 months ago

HC allows AP govt to allocate house sites to poor in Amaravati

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: In a major relief to the state government, the AP High Court on Friday permitted it to allocate house sites to the poor by setting up a separate R-5 zone in Amaravati. Additional advocate general appearing for the AP government and Kasa Jagan Mohan Reddy for APCRDA, submitted that no zone for EWS was created in the Master Plan …

Proposal to allot 1,135 acre for weaker sections housing in Amaravati gets CM’s nod
1 year, 8 months ago

Proposal to allot 1,135 acre for weaker sections housing in Amaravati gets CM’s nod

The Hindu  

In a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on April 3, the AP-Capital Region Development Authority resolved to allot nearly 1,135 acres in Amaravati for the construction of 48,218 houses for the poor people belonging to Guntur and NTR districts in 20 layouts under Navaratnalu - Pedalandariki Illu program. However, it has been decided to give away …

Three Capitals: Sajjala slams Opposition
1 year, 8 months ago

Three Capitals: Sajjala slams Opposition

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Adviser to the government on public affairs, Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy, has asked the opposition parties including the BJP to explain why they are opposing decentralisation and how to achieve the impossible – of procuring Rs 1 lakh crore for the establishment of the capital in Amaravati. He clarified that the Jagan Reddy government increased annuity and was developing Amaravati …

CRDA releases notification for new zone for EWS housing in Amaravati
2 years, 1 month ago

CRDA releases notification for new zone for EWS housing in Amaravati

The Hindu  

The Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department, on October 28, gave a notification for the creation of a new zone for affordable/ Economically Weaker Section housing. The notification mentions the required draft variation to the detailed master plan of Amaravati capital city. As per Section - 53 of the APCRDA Act, 2014, at least five percent of the total area …

Governor’s assent to law for affordable houses for all in Amaravati
2 years, 2 months ago

Governor’s assent to law for affordable houses for all in Amaravati

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan has given his nod for amendment of certain sections in the housing act, enabling the YSR Congress government to construct affordable houses in Amaravati for all citizens, a departure from the earlier provision that restricted such facility only to villagers living in the capital city or the capital region area. Accordingly, certain sections in the act …

TD has started new drama to collect funds, says Perni Nani
2 years, 3 months ago

TD has started new drama to collect funds, says Perni Nani

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Former minister and YSR Congress MLA Perni Venkataramaiah alias Nani has accused Telugu Desam chief N. Chandrababu Naidu of starting Amaravati Maha Padayatra 2.0 from Venkatayapalem to Arasuvilli only to fool people and collect funds from them. “TD leaders resort to padayatra in the name of collecting funds only to convert their black money acquired through real estate business …

Funds shortage slows Amaravati development
2 years, 8 months ago

Funds shortage slows Amaravati development

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Government adviser Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy on Saturday maintained that no deadline can be given for the development of Amaravati as funds are the main constraint. Owing to the financial crunch, AP Chief Secretary has accordingly filed an affidavit in the AP High Court providing all details, Ramakrishna Reddy said. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s explanation that ₹ 1 lakh crore will …

Housing scheme for the poor will help improve A.P.’s GSDP significantly, says Jagan
2 years, 9 months ago

Housing scheme for the poor will help improve A.P.’s GSDP significantly, says Jagan

The Hindu  

While asserting that the large-scale construction of houses for the weaker sections under the ‘Pedalandariki Illu’ scheme will help improve the Gross State Domestic Product, Chief Minister Y.S. First phase Participating in a short discussion on the ‘Distribution of house sites - construction of houses’ in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy said nearly 31 lakh house …

High Court orders Andhra Pradesh to build Amaravati as capital
2 years, 9 months ago

High Court orders Andhra Pradesh to build Amaravati as capital

Deccan Chronicle  

Amaravati: In a setback to the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led Andhra Pradesh government, the AP High Court on Thursday said that the state government should follow the CRDA Act and ordered it to develop Amaravati as the capital, as per the master plan, within six months. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra in its final verdict …

House sites distribution big achievement in history of the country: Amjad Basha
3 years, 10 months ago

House sites distribution big achievement in history of the country: Amjad Basha

Deccan Chronicle  

Kadapa: Deputy Chief Minister S.B. Amjad Basha has said the Andhra Pradesh government's ambitious distribution of house site deeds to the poor as part of the Navratna programme is a great achievement in the history of the country. Addressing a public meeting, he said the state government, which is realizing the dream of the poor to own a house, has …

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