Source: Times of India June1, 2014
Venkaiah Naidu said on Saturday that the new capital would be a medium-size city. "You cannot have a Hyderabad-like capital. At the same time, you also cannot build a bare administrative block and call it a capital," he said adding that the capital should have all facilities like hospitals, schools, colleges, recreation, entertainment etc to attract outsiders.
He said he has had a preliminary discussion with Chandrababu Naidu on the capital and added that the location of the capital would be revealed by the state government. Stating that the Union urban development ministry would have a bigger say in the development of the capital, Venkaiah Naidu said the state government alone cannot build the capital.
Singapore was the buzz word of the TDP president's election campaign. With TDP sources insisting that their chief has still not given up on the Singapore model for the new capital, Venkaiah Naidu's 'medium size model' is taking Chandrababu's approach to a conflict path. However, sources in both the parties said there will be no friction between the leaders of the two parties on development issues, including the building of a new capital.
Speaking about the development of Hyderabad, Venkaiah Naidu said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's idea of urban development would revolve round the 'smaller towns concept'. "We have a long-term perspective. To meet the demand of the urban population in 2051, when the share of urban population in the country would be 50%, we are examining a plan to develop satellite cities around Outer Ring Road on the outskirts of Hyderabad," he added.
To discuss urban development in the context of rapid urbanization, a national conference of municipal and urban development ministers of states has been planned after the first session of Parliament in the first week of June, he said. During the day, Naidu reviewed the progress of various development projects like the Hyderabad Metro Rail, Rajiv Awas Yojana, National Urban Renewal Mission, JNNURM etc, in which the Centre is a stakeholder.
Earlier, Naidu addressed party workers at the state BJP office. Taking a dig at Telangana chief minister-designate K Chandrasekhar Rao's belligerent attitude toward the Centre with regard to the Polavaram project, Venkaiah Naidu said "a confrontationist attitude towards the Centre would do no good to the state. Development is possible only if the state and Centre are mutually cooperative."
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