The Amaravati master plan in plain words
Surbana Jurong of Singapore drew the capital city master plan, and APCRDA notified it in February 2016. It is a grid city with a government core, the river on one side, a network of canals and a lot of green space.
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- 217.23 km²
- Capital city area
- 16.94 km²
- Seed capital area
- 9
- Theme cities
- 30%+
- Blue-green space
Three plans, one inside the other
There are three plans, each inside the next. The Capital Region plan covers 8,352.69 sq km across six districts and 58 mandals. The Capital City plan covers the 217.23 sq km notified urban area, which took in 24 villages and 29 habitations. Inside that, the 16.94 sq km Seed Capital holds the government complex, the first commercial districts and the riverfront. A Singapore consortium of Ascendas-Singbridge and Sembcorp Development led the seed capital work, and Surbana Jurong drew the city plan.
The nine theme cities
Instead of one central business district, the plan groups land uses into nine themed districts: Government City, Justice City, Finance City, Knowledge City, Health City, Sports City, Electronics City, Media City and Tourism City. On the ground you can already see three of them forming. Government City is the Velagapudi–Rayapudi–Nelapadu belt, with the interim Secretariat, the towers and the High Court. Knowledge City is the Inavolu–Mandadam–Neerukonda–Kuragallu arc, with VIT-AP, SRM-AP, Amrita and NID working and BITS and XLRI to come. The foundation programme for the financial district in November 2025 was the first big step for Finance City.
The numbers behind the plan
- 3.5 million residents and 1.5 million jobs by 2050, with more than 90,000 jobs targeted in the first ten years.
- About 51% green space and 10% water bodies in the original brief. APCRDA's own status report puts the blue-green share at over 30% of the plan.
- A 5-10-15 rule for every neighbourhood: emergency services within 5 minutes, open space within 10, and work within 15 by public transport.
- More than 1,600 km of cycle tracks and walkways, a BRTS corridor, and over 15 km of canals that boats can use through the government precinct.
- Standards for every lakh of people: a 10-acre town park, a 12-acre hospital and a 15-acre junior college, with a primary school for every 10,000 to 15,000 people.
How the plan meets the villages
The old village settlements were kept as they are and stitched into the grid. That is why you see old village centres sitting inside new layouts. Each LPS village got a reconstituted layout, in one of 13 LPS zones, where the farmers' returnable plots are. APCRDA lists 26 layout units across 25 villages: Units 1 to 7 in Mangalagiri mandal, 8 and 9 in Tadepalli mandal, and 11 to 26 in Thullur mandal. The village pages show which unit each village belongs to.
Questions people ask
Who designed the Amaravati master plan?
Surbana Jurong of Singapore prepared the capital city master plan. A consortium appointed by the Singapore government, Ascendas-Singbridge and Sembcorp, worked on the seed capital plan. Foster + Partners designed the government complex and its main buildings.
What is the seed capital area?
The 16.94 sq km core of the city, with the government complex, the first commercial districts and the riverfront. The Seed Access Road takes its name from it.
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