Gateway of Andhra Pradesh

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Finally an attractive Indian metropolis

India's 
growth spurt

India is the fastest growing major economy. A "shining star", according to IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. FD editor Frank Gersdorf visited the country to explain the implications of this development - in India itself and also for the Dutch business community. Other items in his hand read about India?

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There is not much to see, say Dutch entrepreneurs and engineers who have just been. A pair of cranes, some apartments and offices and a bare hangar where a giant model city state. The first stone of Amaravati, the new capital should be the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the southeast of the country, last October was laid by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

It's beautiful. Very nice, says Gert Jan Scholte, one of the Dutch experts involved in designing the new metropolis. The architect, owner of the small Amsterdam City office Blob, shows pictures of green fields along the lower reaches of the river Krishna, dotted with palm trees and an empty horizon. Scholte shot the idyllic pictures two weeks ago when he was in a half-built office in Amaravati presented a futuristic design for high-rise buildings along the Krishna, one of the largest rivers of India, which flows into the Indian Ocean.

Amaravati will stay beautiful, it is convinced Scholte. His design for Capital A, as his two 280 meters high, has called slanted residential towers with 2,000 apartments in it and a five-star hotel, garnered much praise. The directors of the regional development of the state were so excited that they all present employees cried at the presentation, says the architect.

Amsterdam design for two slanting towers on the water with 2000 apartments and hotel in future metropolis Amaravati.

smart city

Scholte is also enthusiastic about the designs made for other buildings and the design of the city as a whole. Amaravati is a so-called 'smart city': an orderly, clean city, where use of the latest technology to keep the city liveable.

"Amaravati is very different from the Indian cities full of scents and colors that everyone knows where people, animals, rickshaws, buses, cars and carts swarm together in the street," says Scholte. He shows a page from the brochure about Amaravati of the development. Containing the master plan has been worked out that Singapore made, which won the tender. The outline is clear that pedestrians, cyclists, cars and buses each have a private area on the public road. "Separate traffic avoid the chaos that is so typical of major Indian cities, says the Amsterdam architect.

A giant model of city metropolis Amaravati.

planned town

Amaravati should soon be the home of 2.5 million people. It is a planned city, as there are so many in the world - the Brazilian capital Brasilia to our own Almere. India also has a few planned cities, and probably there will be many more. For the coming years, the government must find housing for the hundreds of millions of Indians left the country.

One of the artificial cities that have risen out of nothing, is Chandigarh, the shared capital of two states in northern India - Haryana and Punjab. After India became independent in 1947, Chandigarh was built to a design by the renowned French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier. Who the town at the foot of the Himalayas visits, always has just the feeling that he is not really in India.

 

new capital

The new metropolis on the Krishna to get there in the southeast since the former state of Andhra Pradesh is split in two in 2014. 35 million Indians living in the north since then in a state now called Telangana. There is also metropolis of Hyderabad, the capital of ancient Andhra Pradesh. More than 50 million people from the southern part of Andhra Pradesh had to look for a new capital on their own territory.

The government of the new state, which still Andhra Pradesh called, dropped her eye on an area of over 200 square kilometers on the right bank of the Krishna, near the village of Amaravathi.However, a major Buddhist center and in ancient times was one of the two capitals of the Satavahana dynasty. Who drove around the beginning of the Christian era a large part of Andhra Pradesh and Central India.

Additional fine is Amaravati in the eyes of an architect Scholte by its location on the river, which is a kilometer wide, and by the construction of canals in the city. The waterfront is an integral part of his design for the two residential towers, and he thinks that will be extended to other architects."And you do not often see in India."

Amaravati is a 'smart city': clean and livable thanks to use of modern technology

 

Amsterdam canal in India

The city design is a great canal included in a semicircle through the center, in a manner reminiscent of the design of the Amsterdam canals.It is therefore not surprising that regional manager Kees van der Lugt of World Waternet, the international arm of the Amsterdam municipal water company, architect Scholte accompanied at the presentation of his plan. He brings Amsterdam's knowledge and experience with them and drawing with engineering firm Arcadis, which also is at work in Amaravati.

According to Van der Lugt has much work to do. 'The waste water must later be purified in an efficient way and reused.' Given the plans for a canal will soon be pumped a lot of water to fill it, he says. But there are also big differences in the canals of Amsterdam: "Since the alarm bells ringing all as the canal water twenty centimeters higher or lower state; when Krishna is the difference between high and low water seven meters. "

Or his design for the twin towers will rise above the drawing board, Scholte not know. He became involved in the design of the new metropolis when the regional development agency asked if he wanted to come up with ideas for iconic architecture. " Now he has returned, the architect hopes he 'something' can do in Amaravati. "I am considering to also open an office, now they know me there."

 

 

Who is working in Amaravati?

According to architect Scholte, there is plenty of work for Dutch entrepreneurs in the metropolis Amaravati which is now being built."Money is not the problem. Indeed the lack of ideas. " Large developers such as Shapoorji Pallonji from Mumbai sit according jump him for good designs for buildings and infrastructure.

For contractors, there is plenty of work, and not just in Amaravati. "There is so much built in India that qualified Dutch engineers and construction workers so get started." Scholte studied in India, wrote books about architecture in Mumbai and Delhi and is now working on a book about India 'smart cities' - one of the major projects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Dutch embassy in Delhi is convinced that there are many opportunities for Dutch parties in Andhra Pradesh, where Amaravati rises. She now works shall be appointed by the state to a cooperation declaration in which the shared plans. What exactly those plans include aspects, the diplomats do not want to lose yet.

Not everyone believes Amaravati is a success. "Hyderabad is already a successful metropolis, which is only 200 kilometers from Amaravati. That is a big competitor for Amaravati, where no companies are, "says developer Manish Dixit from Hoofddorp. He visited Amaravati in May and then walked across the riverbed - Krishna was dry. The river is not only heavily polluted, farmers also tap off so massive water downstream often contains no more drop. A channel must alleviate the distress and supplying water from a neighboring river.

Dixit has a preference for investment in other states. From the small € 0.5 billion which he, inter alia, pension funds hoping to get together for the creation of three Indian investment funds will be established in the Netherlands in the coming years will in any case not a penny to Amaravati.

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Just now, Express_Raja said:

 

A giant model of city metropolis Amaravati.

 

idhi matram singapore city 3d plan not amaravti's appatlo media ki utsaham ekkuvaiy post vesaaru . CBN just visited there to see it 

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12 hours ago, timmy said:

looks like its a concept art, might not be real, kaani bagundhi, gate way of india laaga gate way of andhra pradesh aa? Vizag lo pedatharaa?  

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