The Visakhapatnam district administration is busy in identifying suitable buildings including the Prime Minister’s official residence building.
Although the county authorities have yet to receive official orders on moving the state capital, officials have been doing the groundwork to keep everything ready in advance. Orders may be issued at any time.
The Prime Minister’s official residence is likely to be completed on Beach Road, a prominent area of the city. Official circles are abuzz with talk that if all goes well, the prime minister may perform a house warming ceremony on March 22 or 23.
Officials were also busy identifying buildings for government offices and residences for the minister and senior IAS and IPS officials.
Addressing a meeting in New Delhi on January 31, Jagan Mohan Reddy announced that Visakhapatnam would soon become the capital of the state.
He was addressing the unveiling event of the Global Investors Summit in Visakhapatnam on 3rd and 4th March.
Jagan Mohan Reddy said, “Here I am inviting you to Visakhapatnam, which will be our capital, in the coming days. I myself will also move to Visakhapatnam in the coming months as well”. Government administration of Amaravati.
Although many ministers were talking about this, it was the first time that the chief minister had issued a categorical statement about shifting the administrative capital to Visakhapatnam.
In 2019, the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) government floated the idea of three state capitals with Visakhapatnam as the administrative capital. However, protests by farmers in Amaravati over the transfer of the capital and a Supreme Court order directing the government to develop Amaravati as the state capital have delayed the process.
On 17 December 2019, Jagan Mohan Reddy announced in the state assembly that three state capitals would be developed in contrast to the previous TDP government’s decision to develop Amaravati as the state capital.
The YSRCP government put forward Visakhapatnam as the administrative capital, Kurnool as the judicial capital and Amaravati as the legislative capital.
This sparked massive protests by farmers in Amaravati who granted 33,000 acres of land to the capital, and the previous government also took over work on some components of the mega-project.
On March 3, 2022, the Andhra Pradesh High Court ordered the state government to develop Amaravati as the state capital within six months. A three-judge panel had ruled on 75 petitions by Amaravati farmers and others challenging the government’s move in three capitals.
However, the state government filed an appeal in the Supreme Court. In November last year, the Supreme Court stopped the Supreme Court’s order saying the court could not act as a city planner or architect.
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