Amaravati will mirror Singapore’s Punggol: Lokesh eyes World Bank push for capital project

IT and HRD Minister Nara Lokesh said the integrated township projected to beryllium built successful Amaravati, akin to Singapore’s Punggol district, would service arsenic a benchmark not lone for municipality areas successful Andhra Pradesh (AP) but besides for each of India.

Participating successful a gathering of the Joint Implementation Working Committee (JIWC) formed by the AP and Singapore governments successful Singapore connected Monday (May 11, 2026), Mr. Lokesh requested that the task beryllium expedited and indispensable enactment sought from the World Bank.

He said the Andhra Pradesh authorities was expecting enactment from the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry for processing the Amaravati Economic Region (AER) to planetary standards.

Mr. Lokesh said the State authorities had already issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Amaravati integrated township project. With the statutory backing for the capital, renewed efforts were being made to make it comprehensively.

The curate further suggested that opportunities to boost commercialized betwixt Southeast Asia and East Asia beryllium explored, and said Andhra Pradesh wished to go a Global MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) destination.

For this, the State authorities planned to survey Singapore’s Suntec City model, and assured a business-friendly situation for companies already invested successful oregon looking to participate AP.

Mr. Lokesh said six AP ministers precocious attended a week-long grooming programme nether the Singapore-AP Governance Excellence (SAGE) inaugural and their learnings and experiences would beryllium utilized to amended national services.

The governments of AP and Singapore signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) successful November 2025 focused connected processing the Amaravati integrated exemplary township, the AER, and integer translation and real-time governance.

Singapore Minister of State for Trade, Industry and Education Gan Siow Huang; Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) elder manager Francis Chong; Singapore Cooperation Enterprise lawman CEO Tay Lian Chew; Indian High Commissioner Shilpak Ambule; and elder IAS officers D. Surendra, Anantha Sankar, Peeyush Kumar and Katamaneni Bhaskar were present.