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Secretariat and key offices in core capital
The State government seems to have adopted two different plans in shifting the government offices from Hyderabad to the capital region. While the secretariat and few key departments would be located in the capital area and most of the directorates and commissionerates that has day today interaction with people would be located either in Vijayawada or in Guntur.
Hyderabad: The State government seems to have adopted two different plans in shifting the government offices from Hyderabad to the capital region. While the secretariat and few key departments would be located in the capital area and most of the directorates and commissionerates that has day today interaction with people would be located either in Vijayawada or in Guntur.
According to sources, “There are 32 government departments and 70 per cent of them have either director or commissioner attached to them. The government is planning to locate the commissionerates and directorates having regular public interaction, either at Guntur, Vijayawada or partly in Mangalagiri area. This would leave only the secretariat and key departments of the government like industries, AP Economic Development Board, APIIC, offices and the like would be located in the core capital region.”
It was part of this planning that the government has sanctioned construction of a multi-storied building for Road and Buildings Department in the premises of the present Superintendent Engineer of the department in Vijayawada. The building is planned with an estimated cost of Rs 110 crore.
Similarly, while the Integrated Multi-model Transport Authority headquarters would be located in Amravati, the State Transport Department headquarters would be located in Vijayawada. Likewise, the Agriculture and Cooperation, Municipal Administration and Urban Development departments were also likely to be located in Guntur.
Giving reasons for the government’s move, a senior official from the MA&UD said, “The department of agriculture and cooperation alone has four commissionerates and one directorate, besides 12 institutions. The Medical and Health Department has about seven institutions attached to it, in addition two commissionerates and three directorates.”
And, the focus of the government was to locate the key departments like industries and investments, energy, IT and Electronics and the like, besides, making Amaravati a home for its newly carved out prestigious institutions like Andhra Pradesh State Maritime Board, Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board, Andhra Pradesh Skill Development Corporation and others.
“Locating institutions like transport, labor, education, agriculture and allied sectors, BC welfare and the like in Vijayawada and Guntur would make them more accessible to the people. This would also help in economic activity in both the cities,” the sources pointed out. However, there were some autonomous departments like endowment’s, Wakf and the like having their own lands. And, these departments could station their head quarters in the capital city area.
