Encroachment of Nature, People and Livelihoods: A Case of the Abusive, Greedy and Failing Amaravati Capital City Project (2014-2019) Research: Tani Alex Layout: Ankit Agrawal Published by: Centre for Financial Accountability New Delhi www.cenfa.org
[email protected] Cover Photo: Rahul Maganti/PARI April 2019 Copylef: Free to use any part of this document for non-commercial purpose, with acknowledgement of source. For Private Circulation Only Encroachment of Nature, People and Livelihoods: A Case of the Abusive, Greedy and Failing Amaravati Capital City Project (2014-2019) 3 Background of the Amaravati Project (2014-2017) Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation of the Amaravati Capital City Project. Photo courtesy: AP Capital Region Development Authority fer bifurcation of the erstwhile Indian crops irrigated on the foodplains. Te area sited for state of Andhra Pradesh in June 2014, both the city presently has a population of 1.03 lakh while the new states of Telangana and Andhra that of the entire capital region would be 5.8 million. APradesh are sharing the Hyderabad as capital for 10 years. In September 2014, N Chandrababu Naidu, Te following contraventions of this project are the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh announced elicited, during 2014-2017, with regard to World that a single capital would be built for the State. Bank’s Operational Policies, in a concentrated efort to prevent forthcoming irreplaceable damages to Amaravati, the proposed capital city covers an area peoples’ lives. World Bank’s Operational Policies of 217. 23 sq. km with the seed capital in an area of framework have been employed here as AIIB has 16.94 sq.