Sustainable city to be established on some of India's prime farmland

On October 22, 2015 India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of a new city in a banana grove 13 km southwest of Vijayawada and less than 2 km south of the Krishna river. The ceremony marked the beginning of a dream project for the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N. Chandrababu Naidu, to develop an international class city in India.

A substantial section of the old state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India was carved out into a new state, Telangana, on June 2, 2014. Telangana got Hyderabad — the erstwhile capital of united Andhra Pradesh — as its own capital. The new, smaller, Andhra Pradesh either had to choose another city for its own capital, or build a new one. It has chosen to build a city to be called Amaravati.

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