Singapore Governor Explains AP Capital Master Plan

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu began his day in Singapore on Monday by reading a note in remembrance of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew.

Later, he had a breakfast meeting with Singapore's minister of Foreign Affairs K Shanmugam and Ambassador-at-Large Gopinath Pillai, followed by a high-level meeting with Singapore's Second Minister for Trade and Industry S Iswaran.

During the high-level meeting with Iswaran and other delegates of Singapore, the Singapore Governor presented a broad outline plan of the Andhra Pradesh new capital region, to which the AP Chief Minister has suggested few modifications. The capital city master plan will be refined by incorporating these suggestions and modifications in the next six to eight weeks.

Meanwhile, the delegation from Andhra Pradesh gave a detailed presentation on the land pooling process and the various timelines for making the capital ready.

They explained to the Singapore delegates that the capital area would have two ring roads and several radial roads connecting various small towns to the core capital region.

The AP and Singapore delegation have decided to meet in the next six to eight weeks by the time the Singapore government came up with a revised master version of the plan. The next stage, however, would be the seed capital planning.

The Singapore delegation included Chee Hong Tat, Lee Ark Boon, Francis Chong, Lixia Ong, Amanda Kwek and Gillian Goh from the Ministry of Trade & Industry, Teo Eng Chong from IE Singapore, Loh Ah Tuan from Centre for Liveable Cities and several delegates from the Singapore Cooperation enterprise.

The AP delegation to Singapore includes ministers Yanamala Ramakrishnudu and P Narayana, Advisor (Communications) Parakala Prabhakar, Special Chief secretary S P Tucker, Principal Secretary to the CM Satish Chandra, Principal Secretary (Industries) Shamsher Singh Rawat, Principal Secretary (MA&UD) Giridhar and CRDA CEO Srikanth. (INN)