Capital City How to?

A city to be accessible from all corners of the state. Ideally, it should be at a centrally located area.

• The location must have 6-km radius and development must be possible up to 6 km on all sides, as the new capital will have its own Secretariat, Assembly, High Court and other important buildings.
•  If the capital city is 12 km long, then it must be feasible for development across 144 sq km.
• if we convert the same into acres, then 30,000 acres will be required for the development of a new capital city.

Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s outrageously grandiose ghost capital. Here, the challenge may well be to regulate growth rather than trying to populate the newly-built city. Amita Desai, Director of a German cultural organisation and a witness to the German unification, hopes “the new city would be inclusive, environmentally conscious and aesthetically fertile and, above all, provide spaces for women where they feel safe.”

Just being an attractive administrative capital — a la boring Gandhinagar — is not enough to pull people in and make a vibrant city

Delhi spread across 3,66,000

Mumbai spread across 1,49,000

Chennai spread across 1,05,000

Hyderabad spread across 1,54,000

Jaipur spread across 1,60,000

Proposed Amaravathi core capital 40,000  

Deciding on a capital is never easy and it is tougher still when the population of the top pick is just a little more than 13,000, or one-five hundredth of Hyderabad’s. 

Established as the capital of the expansive Satavahana Empire, which ruled most parts of central and southern Indian from 230 BCE to 220 CE, Amaravathi was once a prosperous centre. 

 The master plan for Andhra Pradesh proposes to develop Guntur, Nandigama and Gudivada into pharma, textile and agro centres, while pitching Amaravathi as the culture figurehead.

“Amaravathi has got more of a historical legacy and less of a living cultural legacy,”