READ ALSO:

Alarm in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu as Andhra’s Naidu 2.0 goes on business hunt

READ ALSO:

Chandrababu Naidu lays bare capital contours

HYDERABAD: In a grand plan that promises to give Washington’s famed Capitol Hill a run for its money, the camp office-cum-residence of Andhra Pradesh chief minister is being proposed along the banks of river Krishna towards Vijayawada, with the secretariat, assembly, Raj Bhavan and high court to come up on the opposite side in Guntur district.These are the salient features of the capital blueprint, which is at an advanced stage and slated to be finalized after a team of experts from Singapore visits the capital region in the first week of December.As per the blueprint, which reflects the vision of CM Nara Chandrababu Naidu , the capital city would be ultramodern with six-lane roads. Comprising several huge parks and fountains, it will be the one of the greenest cities in India, whose hallmark will be a beautiful garden spread across a 20-km stretch between the capital and Prakasam Barrage, sources privy to the blueprint said.The AP assembly will be a grandiose granite-domed structure that is expected to attract visitors from all over the world.Sources said it was on Naidu’s insistence that the blueprint has proposed a 44-storey secretariat complex. “Singapore engineers had conveyed to the CM that the sub-surface soil in the capital area region is sandy and not fit for skyscrapers. However, Naidu told them that when there is technology to create islands and tall structures in the middle of the sea, the sandy soil should not pose a problem for constructing skyscrapers. Accordingly, the 44-storey skyscraper model for the secretariat complex stands,” a source said.Sources told TOI a team of engineers has visited the capital region and studied the quality of the soil.“Naidu wants to lay the foundations stone for the capital city on Ugadi day, 2015, the Telugu New Year Day, which falls on March 21. The idea is to mark that day as the beginning of a new chapter in the history of the Telugu people,” the source said.