![]() ![]() The Andhra Pradesh government signed a pro-bono agreement with Singapore in December 2014 to plan the new capital. The new city will be built at an expected cost of 1 trillion rupees (£10.7bn) on 217.23 square kilometres of land on the banks of the Krishna river, and is expected to generate jobs to sustain a population of 9-12 million people in the surrounding capital region. As part of the Indian government’s legislation, the existing capital, Hyderabad, would continue to be shared for another 10 years, after which it becomes solely the capital of Telangana.Īmaravati was envisioned as a world-class smart city, the first to be part-funded by the Indian government. ![]() We have learnt a lot during the process of building this capital.”Īmaravati – India’s fifth planned state capital city – was conceived after the splitting up of Andhra Pradesh in June 2014 into two smaller states, Telangana and (a smaller) Andhra Pradesh, following a three-decade struggle for statehood by residents of the Telangana region. After some rather frantic research, we found that the Indian scholar Varahamihira had written it in the 6 th century. “They wanted to know what Vaasthu was and who wrote it. “The master planners with the Singapore government were puzzled,” Nagulapalli said. ![]() What is indisputable, though, is its pervasiveness in Indian society. There is some debate among Indian historians about how old Vaasthu (which translates from Sanskrit as the “science of architecture”, and is essentially an ancient compilation of rules for various types of building) really is, and who the original author was. ![]()
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