In a historic event, the Government of Singapore has presented the most-anticipated Seed Capital Area (SCA) Master Plan for Amaravathi, proposed capital city of the truncated state. Singapore Minister Iswaran presented the SCA Master Plan to AP CM Chandrababu Naidu in Rajahmundry on Monday.
Covering a whopping area of about 16.9 sq.km, below are the key highlights of the Seed Capital Area (SCA) Master Plan:
1. The Seed Capital Area is planned for about 3 lakh residents. Being developed as a vibrant business hub, a total of about 7 lakh jobs are expected to be created in various sectors including government jobs.
2. The Seed Capital Area aspiration is to create a thriving state of the art Central Business District (CBD) for business and living.
3. The Seed Capital Area master plan provides nodes and development corridors from transit oriented development approach. The Seed Capital would be developed in overall 5 phases.
4. The various zones would comprise of central business district, residential townships, institutions, parks and gardens, water bodies, recreational spaces, water front etc.
5. In line with the Capital City, the Seed Capital Area is planned on transit oriented development principles. To provide and enhance mobility and accessibility to the citizens, the master plan provides a transport hierarchy that comprises of an integrated network of metro rail network of about 12 kms, bus rapid transit of about 15 kms, downtown road of about 7 km, arterial roads and sub-arterial roads of about 26 kms and collector roads of about 53 kms, with varying broad right-of-ways.
6. The city being planned on sustainable development principles, extensive large open green spaces have been planned that shall add value to the urban ecosystem. The landscape would create world class aesthetic appeal to make city liveable and attractive.
7. Special emphasis has been laid to enhance development of extensive walkways and pedestrianisation interlinked with open and green spaces with a blue and green network of more than 25 kms to promote walk-to-work environment and non-motorised transport.
8. The iconic developments will include state-of-the-art government complex, city gateway, cultural centre, convention centre etc.
9. The Seed Capital Area master plan provisions for waste management systems that would enable innovative methods for waste collection, transportation, treatment and resource recovery such as Waste-to-Energy, thereby creating a resourceful, safe and healthy city.
11. The Seed Capital Area master plan integrates the existing habitat of capital city area and provides them with the best-in-class urban ecosystem.
12. The Seed Capital Area development will be implemented on Public Private Partnership by selecting Job Creation and Investment Partner
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