Amaravati: Where The Dust Has Settled And Time Stands Still

Change of regime has turned AP’s new capital into a ghost town

- V Rishi Kumar

Rusted railings of completed apartments, eroded torsion steel bars, stalled cranes, ready-mix concrete plants, unpacked cooling and power back-up units lying unattended, and hardly any human.

This is Amaravati.

As one drives through the proposed capital city project of Andhra Pradesh on the banks of the Krishna, one is hit hard by how deserted and desolate it looks. Once a place teeming with workers and buzzing with activity, it now looks like a ghost town.

Ambitious project

Where thousands of workers were executing one of the nation’s most ambitious greenfield capital city projects, things have come to a standstill following a regime change in the State.