The Amaravati Government Complex: what is rising on 1,350 acres
The precinct designed by Foster + Partners covers about 1,350 acres between Velagapudi, Rayapudi and Nelapadu. Four separate building programmes are going on inside it, and this page links them together.
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The four programmes
| Programme | Scale | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|
| Legislative Assembly | 1.1 mn sq ft; a 250 m conical tower with galleries at 80 m and 250 m | L&T contract of ₹617 crore; ground broken on 2 May 2025; target 2028. |
| High Court complex | 2 basements, ground and 7 floors; about 45,000 tonnes of steel | Raft foundation laid; target 2027. The consultancy was revised to ₹206.59 crore in August 2026 for a larger building. |
| Secretariat and HoD towers | Five towers on 32 acres, four of B+G+39 and one of B+G+49; 4.85 lakh sq m | Tenders of ₹4,668 crore; construction restarted in May 2025. Ministers have spoken of finishing one tower a month once the cores reach the top. |
| Government housing | 3,840 apartments and 194 bungalows in the 2017 plan; towers for MLAs, MLCs and AIS officers now | APCRDA's 2025 target for the MLA, MLC and AIS residential towers was October 2026. We have not yet seen a completion report. |
The interim complex that runs the state today
Everything above is permanent. The state is actually governed from the Interim Government Complex at Velagapudi: six blocks with six lakh square feet in all, finished in 192 days and in use since 3 October 2016. The interim Assembly next to it has housed the Legislature since March 2017, and the High Court has worked from a G+2 building at Nelapadu since 1 January 2019. These buildings will keep working until the permanent ones open. That is why Velagapudi is still the busiest village in the capital.
What else the precinct will have
- More than 15 km of canals that boats can use through the precinct, and a riverfront developed for mixed use.
- A 147 km network of tier-2 roads and services inside the government complex, with district cooling planned.
- The layout of the Assembly, High Court and Secretariat was finalised in October 2024. The towers stand along a 900 m by 139 m spine on both sides of the Pala Vagu.
Questions people ask
Where exactly is the Amaravati Secretariat?
The working Secretariat is the Interim Government Complex at Velagapudi. The permanent five-tower Secretariat is being built in the government complex near Rayapudi and Nelapadu, along the Pala Vagu.
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