Municipal Administration & Urban Development(CRDA) Department - Employees Housing Policy- Amaravati Capital City Area - Allotment of land for Employees of Andhra Pradesh Secretariat and Heads of the Departments in Capital City - Orders Issued.

ORDERT

In the references 1't read above, the President, Andhra Pradesh Secretariat

Associatlon has represented the Government for allotment of land to an extent of

Ac. 100.00 cents in the new Capital City of Amaravati for construction of houses to

the Secretariat employees through an institutional framework.

2. In the reference 2nd & 3'd read above, the President, AP NGOs Association

and the Chairman, AP JAC Amaravati made similar representations to the

Government.

3. Government, after considering the representations received from the

Association of the employees requested the Commissioner, Andhra Pradesh Capital

Region Development Authority (APCRDA) to place the matter before the Group of

lvlinisters.

4. The Group of Ministers. among others, have discussed the issue in the 1lth

meeting of the Group of Ministers held on 20.12.2018 and recommended to allot

200 square yards to Gazetted Employees of Secretariat & Heads of Departments at

the rate of Rs.4500 per Sq. yard and 175 Sq. Yards to Non-Gazetted employees of

Secretariat & Heads of the Departments at the rate of Rs.4000 per Sq. yard on

Freehold basis.

5. Further, in view of the bifurcation of the state and creation of the new state

of Andhra Pradesh, the new capital city area is notified covering 29 villages of

Guntur district and named as Amaravati. Amaravati is being developed and the

High Court, Legislature, Secretariat, Government heads of departments, State

Public Sector Undertakings and State level institutions are being established in the

new capital. Buildings of the Secretariat, Legislature, heads of departments etc. are

coming up in the'Government city' while the High Court and related institutions are

comlng up in the'Justice city'of Amaravati capital city area. About 10,000 staff will

be relocated to the new city to work in these institutions. The entire Amaravati

capital city area of about 54,000 acres is pooled by APCRDA under APCRDA Act. As

the city is a new area still under development there is lack of housing stock in the

new capital. It is observed that earlier Greenfield state capital cities in India have

been struggling to attract human settlement even after 2 to 3 decades of their

development. Therefore, in order to kick start city development it is necessary to

promote settlement of the Government Employees who were shlfted from

Hyderabad to Vijayawada in view of State bifurcation. For this purpose of facilitating

settlement of this category oF people in the new Greenfield capital city, Government

have issued an Employees Housing Policy for Amaravati Capital City Area vide

reference 5th road above.