Foundation stone for Amaravati to be laid on 6th June

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu will start functioning from his Vijayawada camp office from June 2. The foundation of the new capital is likely to be laid on June 6.

Mr Naidu will be at the Vijayawada camp office three days a week. The Andhra Praesh Cabinet meeting held at the Secretariat on Tuesday decided that the foundation stone for the Amaravati capital will be laid on June 6. The construction work will start from Dasara.

The government will conduct Nava Nirmana Deeksha on June 2 and will organise a huge public meeting on June 8. After the Cabinet meeting, ministers K. Atchennaidu and Prattipati Pulla Rao told the media that Mr Naidu had asked them to set up their camp offices at Vijayawada near his camp office.

He had asked the Cabinet sub-committee headed by finance minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu to study the available buildings like those of tourism, private and others at Vijayawada to shift the departments.