Amaravati development works to resume from Uddandarayuni Palem: Chief Secretary Neerabh Kumar

AMARAVATI: AP Chief Secretary Neerabh Kumar said that orders have been issued to develop Amaravati on a war footing. He visited different parts of the capital region on Sunday along with Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) officials.

“We will start all the works in Amaravati very soon. We will talk to the finance department and clear the two-year lease money due to Amaravati farmers. Forest clearance has taken on a war footing,” he said speaking to media after the visit.

The forest clearance had been taken with 94 JCBs and the remaining works would be taken up after Nara Chandrababu Naidu’s swearing-in as CM on June 12, the CS informed media.

“Work will commence from the Uddandarayuni Palem area and we are planning to complete the work soon,” Neerabh Kumar said.

With the coming to power of the TDP alliance, the work in the Amaravati region has started again. CRDA officials are carrying out forest clearance work in Amaravati, which has become a maze with thick thorns, mad trees, and bushes under the Jagan government.

In the wake of the Chandrababu Government announcing the resumption of the construction of the capital, jungle clearance works started with the help of heavy machinery. A large number of poclains and JCBs were pressed in and the barbed wires around structures were removed and cleaned at places.

The roads seem to be coming back to life after the earlier YSRCP Government decided to discontinue the development works. As a result, trees and shrubs have withered. The multi-storied buildings of IAS officers and employees, judicial quarters, government Type-1 and Type-2 buildings, and the GAD Mega Tower, which was part of the construction work of the permanent capital, almost got razed to the ground.

The CRDA took up the massive removal work of barbed wire fencing near the ‘Karakatta’ road from Vijayawada to Amaravati, the most important seed access road, the road from the High Court to Thullur, the roads constructed by the Amaravati capital master plan, and the multi-storeyed buildings of IAS officers and employees.

The GAD towers which were to be constructed as part of the construction of the permanent capital now resemble big ponds. Huge motors would be installed to remove water from it. It was estimated that it would take another week to completely remove the forest of trees in Amravati.

The locks of the experience centre, which have been left in the air for five years, were opened and cleaned. The bushes spread around the centre were also removed. The shrub was so much that it was difficult to spot where the structures built to install electric wires underground were located in the capital.

All the shrub was removed to make the underground ducts visible. The area where the foundation stone for Amaravati was laid during the previous TDP government in Uddandarayunipalem was cleaned. CRDA Commissioner Vivek Yadav supervised the work. The work started on Friday.