21.5.15

Muhurat for AP capital city fixed

Heeding to the advice of astrologers, the Andhra Pradesh government has decided to hold the ground-breaking ceremony for the new capital at 8.49 am on June 6. Chief minister Chandrababu Naidu has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the function, but the PMO is yet to confirm his participation.
Work on the construction of the new capital can begin only after Singapore submits the three master plans. Of the three, it submitted the first one on March 30 this year, the second is scheduled to be given to the state on May 25 and the final one in the last week of June. However, without waiting for the same, Naidu has decided to hold the groundbreaking ceremony on June 6 as, according to the astrologers, there are no auspicious days for sometime after that day . The ceremony will be held at Tullur village, which is also mandal headquarters.
The actual groundwork for the construction of the capital coming up between Vijayawada and Guntur will commence during the Dasara festival that falls on October 22. The state has targeted to complete the groundwork and development of the land by the middle of next year. “We aim to complete phase one of the construction of the capital by 2018,“ an official said. The first phase would involve the completion of the core government buildings such as the assembly , secretariat, chief minister's camp office-cum-residence, Raj Bhavan and high court.
Preceding the groundbreaking ceremony on June 6 will be a series of events that will culminate on June 8, which marks the completion of one year in office of the TDP government. June 2, when united Andhra Pradesh was divided into Telangana and AP , is to be observed as `Navanirmana Deeksha' day .After the ground-breaking ceremony , the TDP is to hold a public meeting on June 8, the day Chandrababu Naidu assumed office. The venue for the meeting will most likely be the same place where Naidu was sworn in as CM, the ground close to Acharya Nagarjuna University in Guntur district.
In the run-up to the construction of the capital, the AP government first set up the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) which will act like regulatory body 

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