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AMARAVATI, May 1: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Andhra Pradesh on May 2 to lay the foundation stone and inaugurate a host of projects worth Rs 58,000 crore in the state's greenfield capital, Amaravati. "In one of the largest single-day infrastructure announcements for the state, the Prime Minister will lay the foundation for and inaugurate a total of 94 projects worth Rs 57,962 crore," said a press release from the CM's office on Thursday. As part of Amaravati greenfield capital reconstruction, the PM will lay the foundation for 74 projects valued at Rs 49,000 crore, which encompass the construction of the assembly, secretariat, high court buildings and judicial residential quarters. Also, he will lay the foundation for nine central projects worth Rs 5,028 crore, such as DRDO's missile testing centre (Rs 1,459 crore) at Nagayalanka in Krishna district, unity mall in Vizag (Rs 100 crore), Guntakal-Mallappa Gate Rail overbridge (Rs 293 crore) and six national highway projects (Rs 3,680 crore).
The missile testing centre will house a launch centre, technical instrumentation facilities, indigenous radars, telemetry and electro-optical systems, enhancing the country's defence preparedness. Meanwhile, the relaunch of Amaravati construction works will be the second such launch in a decade, as PM Modi had already done it once back in October 2015. In the subsequent four years since the first foundation, the TDP regime, between 2014 and 2019, managed to erect some temporary structures such as the secretariat, High Court building and partially completed some official residential projects.
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