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The Union authorities is apt to present the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2026, successful the existent Lok Sabha league to officially recognise Amaravati arsenic the sole superior of Andhra Pradesh.
Senior sources successful the authorities said the determination follows a solution passed by the Andhra Pradesh Assembly connected March 28, 2026, urging the Centre to amend the instrumentality to incorporated Amaravati arsenic the State’s capital. Copies of the Bill person been circulated among MPs.
The Bill proposes to amend Section 5 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, which had primitively designated Hyderabad arsenic the communal superior for some Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for a play not exceeding 10 years.
The determination comes aft a agelong process of settling a superior metropolis for Andhra Pradesh aft the bifurcation of the erstwhile State successful 2014 into Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. At that time, the Union authorities had acceptable up a committee of experts, arsenic mandated nether Section 6 of the Act, to research the question of a caller capital. The members of that committee included K. C. Siva Ramakrishnan, past chairperson of the governing committee of the Centre for Policy Research, Rathin Roy, past manager of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Aromar Revi, past manager of Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Jagan Shah, past manager National Institute of Urban Affairs, and K. T. Ravindran, erstwhile dean of the School of Planning and Architecture.
The committee had submitted a study successful August that year. Though it had opposed the thought of a ‘super capital’ apprehending ecological harm among different issues, the Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Party authorities began onshore acquisition and rolled retired different initiatives successful the State’s Guntur territory to found Amaravati arsenic the capital.
When the authorities changed successful 2019, with the YSRCP helmed by Jagan Mohan Reddy successful power, enactment stalled arsenic the caller Chief Minister was not successful favour of a displacement of the State’s superior to Amaravati. Alleging that excessively overmuch wealth was being spent connected it, helium projected alternatively a “three capitals” formula, suggesting Visakhapatnam arsenic the enforcement capital, Kurnool arsenic the judicial capital, and Amaravati arsenic the legislative capital.
When the TDP returned to powerfulness successful 2024, Mr. Naidu revived the Amaravati plan.
Sources successful the State authorities said that investors who were connected committee successful the past had been spooked by the alteration of plans successful 2019, and truthful to insulate the colony of a caller superior from governmental vagaries, Amaravati has to beryllium established successful the statute books.
Legal sanctity for the caller superior is lone imaginable aft a gazette notification pursuing the transition of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganistaion (Amendment) Bill, 2026.
