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Building a State Capital Region (SCR) is a 'Once in a Blue Moon' kind of an opportunity and one need to take a comprehensive and long-standing outlook to come up with an Economically viable, Resourceful, Peaceful and Prosperous People's Capital.I would like to present a SWOT analysis and highlight the factors playing For and Against some of the proposed SCR (State Capital Regions) like Vizag, Amaravati, Kurnool and Donakonda.VIZAG or Visakhapatnam:Strengths:In Vizag, we are already having a fastest growing Two-Tier city (next to 6 Metros of India) with an area of 682 sq km, it is the 14th largest city in India with a population of around 20 lakhs (as per 2011 census).Headquarters for Eastern Naval Command, a natural deep Harbor of vizag and Gangavaram port, Hindustan Shipyard, many public sector instituitions like BHPV, Steel plant, IOC hub, NTPC etc.,An established Industrial hub with many IT/ITes companies, Pharma companies, Ferro-Alloy and Aluminium industries and an upcoming Fintech valley.An excellent Tourist centre with some of the best beach resorts, near by tourist sites like Borra caves, Araku valley, the famous Lambasingi hill station that gets snow fall, religious tourist sites like Simhachalam.An excellent city with many reputed educational institutions like Andhra University, the newly set up IIM-Vizag, GITAM university (private), Indian Maritime University, NIO, IIPE etc.,.All these factors making the cosmopolitan Vizag, a truly ‘City of Destiny' with growing Industrial, Tourist, Educational and most imporantly as a Financial Hub in the eastcoast.Weaknesses:There is very limited land availabilty for the establishment of State Capital Infrastructure.The city itself growing longitudinal (North-South) with no scope for lateral growth because it is sandwiched between Sea and Eastern ghats. Even the proposed International Airport had to be planned in Bhogapuram in the adjoining Vizianagaram district.Odds/Opportunities:From the AP state geographical perspective located at one extreme end of the very long coastline and from Rayalaseema region.Frankly speaking, for this peace loving City and people 'being a Political and Power Capital' is something doesn't suit at all as a genuine opinion (i can tell this as some one who have spent most important 7 years of my life).Already, being in the Uttarandhra region it is already target for raking up emotions by some divisive and upcoming Politicians (in the wake of original AP state got divided by politicians by raking up peoples emotions and sentiments.Threats:Being a coastal city Vizag is prone for Natural disasters (ex: recent Hud Hud cyclone)Being a strategic Eastern Naval Command headquarter - always on radar of Enemy countries and setting up the SCR will only further make it a soft target.Summary:So overall if we see the entire SWOT analysis, it is always better to allow Vizag as a best Industrial, Economical and Financial Hub for the entire East Coast of India rather than forcing it to become a Political Capital. In my personal opinion it is always better to have seperate Political and Financial capitals.Before going for the case of Amaravati, let us see the analysis forDonakonda and Kurmool;Strengths:Land availability should not be a problem for these two locations.Availability of a world war II air strip of British is an advantage for Donakonda which is from Prakasam district.For Kurnool being on the banks of Tungabhadra (opportunity for Riverfront capital), availability of water resource is promising and also its proximity to Srisailam dam on river Krishna. Kurnool also happened to be the capital of Andhra state briefly after it got seperated from Madras state and before got aligned with Telangana.Weakness:A big weakness for Donakonda is it being a too small town-village like place with Arid Barren lands and severe water shortage with no thriving Economically developed and other urban areas in the near by vicinity.Kurnool town (just 69.51 sq Km in area with population of 4.3 lakhs) on southern border to Telangana, with no chance/scope to grow northernly. On the easternside it has got lot of Forest area (Nallamala) and western side border with Karnataka making it an unattractive location for expansion possible only in southward direction towards Nandyala, Gooty-Guntakal and towards Anantapuram (this kind of expansion makes this purported region more proximal to Bangalore rather than to the rest of AP).Kurnool in-spite being a district headquarter, the town infrastructure really doesn't have any additional advantage for an economical viability with no other major urban areas in the near vicinity.Both the locations doesn't have a very good connectivity (air and port connectivity).Odds/Opportunities:Kurnool being a small town with limited resources for an Economically Viable and enterprising capital that can potentially become the 7th Big Metro City for India.Even though Kurnool is on the banks of Tungabhadra it is on the tail end and much before it merges with Krishna river - making it unattractive as the availability of water depends on release of water from Tungabhadra Dam in Hospete, Karnataka. Offlate due to too many states sharing Krishna water basin and increased Dam height of Alamatti in Karnataka - there is scarcity of water in Krishna river in-spite normal monsoon in the last couple of years. By the way AP is more of a civilization connected to rivers Godavari and Krishna rather than Tungabhadra.Even Donakonda like Kurnool doesn' have any advantage with no bigtime development in the vicinity to make a case for a thriving, Potential & Prosperous SCR.Threats:Kurnool being on an extreme location being far-off from other regions of the state. There is already a demand (even though not a popular) for a 'seperate Rayalaseema' demand from an insignificant 'Rayalaseema Porata Samiti'.‘Donakonda' being a small flat town surrounded by hilly terrain, with severe shortage of water resources and no major already thriving economic activity.Summary:So, both these locations (Donakonda and Kurnool) doesn't have Potential viability to become 7th biggest Metro City in the country.Let us now look at the prospectus of ‘Amaravati’ as a potential contender as a location for 'SCR'.Amaravati:Strengths:Excellent oportunity for world class River front Capital with ample water resource to support a fururistic Mega Metropolitan State Capital Region {by the way in modern India the only major Riverfront City (part of capital) is Ahmedabad on banks of Sabarmati - unlike many of the ancient India's Capital kingdoms like Ujjain, Ayodhya, Mahishmati-Maheshwar (depicted in the 'Gautamiputra Satakarni movie'), Kannauj, Kampilya, Kasi, Rajamahendravaram}.Availability of ample water is very crucial for the futuristic growth of a Mega Metropolis for the human sustenance (best example: Mumbai BMMC).Almost Centric location of Amaravati from both Uttarandhra and Rayalaseema districts making it equi-accessible from all the corners of the state and can be a balanced proposition.Amaravati location has another advantage of two major economically thriving Urban Muncipal Corporations - Viajayawada (Metropolitan city of 160 sq Km area with a population of 10.4 lakhs) and Guntur (a big town corporation of 168.41 sq Km area with about 7.5 lakh population) and another muncipality in Mangalagiri with an area of 17.53 sq Km and a population of 75 thousand. Apart from this another 7 municipalities and 2 Nagar Panchayatis are accessible within the vicinity of 30 kms from the proposed Seed capital.Availability of Vijayawada-Guntur-Tenali (VGT) Urban Development Authority (UDA) at disposal.Accessability to an existing Airport at Gannavaram (which now has been upgraded to an international terminal).Connectivity with three near by (80 - 100 km) Ports of Machilipatnam, Nizampatnam and Vadrevu (which came into prominence after turning down of Duggarajapatnam port under AP reorganization act).Accessability to two major Railway junctions which also happened to be Rly Divisions in Vijayawada (BZA) and Guntur (GNT) and excellent road transport with proximal NH5 - Chennai - Kolkata National Highway that also happened to be the eastern arm of Golden Quadrilateral. already existing University (Nagarjuna Univ) and established Educational hubs (private Vignan and KL Universities).It is not so close (80–100 km away) to Sea Coast of Bay of Bengal which is infamous for Cyclonic storms (ex: recent Hud-Hud toofan of Vizag and the infamous Diviseema Uppena of 70s).Weaknesses:Except for proximity two major Urban areas, there is no existing infrastructure in Amaravati region - rather than being a weakness, it is an excellent opportunity to bridge the gap of 36 km between BZA & GNT with a westwardly expansion on the river front till ancient temple town of Amaravati (one of seat Capitals of Andhra Satavahanas).Non-availabity of ample water in Krishna River basin with too many states sharing waters - this has been solved already with the Pattiseema lift Irrigation (and permanent solution of Polavaram multipurpose dam project) to link Godavari river waters with Krishna river ahead of Prakasam barrage.Odds/Opportunities:Highly fertile landmass is going to be lost for SCR - AP being mostly an agrarian state somewhere one need to compromise except for barren arid lands of Rayalaseem districts and Prakasam districts where there is shortage of water.Possible harm to nearby Kondapalli Forest Reserve - the SCR can still be possible keeping it and coming up with Greenfield Capital arena.Threats:Possible flooding of capital region from 'Kondaveeti Vagu' - with proper embankment river bank, flooding can be avoided (a special Flood Mitigation plan has already been adapted into the city master plan).Possible threat of regional seperatism of backward districts of Rayalaseema and Uttarandhra - with the provision of special grant for backward districts as part of AP reorganization Act and a concerted concious effort of setting up industries and growth factors in those areas, this can be addressed as a permanent solution.Summary:Amaravati presents an unique opportunity for Telugu people and Andhra Pradesh to completely build a new People's capital which can in near future has the potential to become a 'Mega Metropolitan Capital Region' that can be tranformed into a Sustainable and Thriving People's Capital of Enterprise, Economic and Political activity.Status Update:Local farmers sensing an Unique opportunity voluntarily came forward to give 33 thousand acres of precious land under the 'Land Pooling model' at the appeal of CM and AP state government.This has now become an unique model of People's and Public Government's joint development to build a Capital from scratch.AP government engaged Singapore based professional institutions to come up with master plan for ‘Andhra Pradesh Capital Region' (APCR) with the help of world famous architects as consultants for design of major buildings of the Seed Capital.APCRDA (Development Authority) and ADC (Amaravati Development Corporation) have come up with plans of 'Amaravati Core Capital city' in an area of 217.23 sq Km.The Seed capital (hub of Government's administrative arena) is going to be in 16.94 sq Km area.The core Capital city is going to be having 9 themed cities - Government, Justice, Knowledge, Education, Finance, Sports, Tourism, Electronic and Media counter parts with intermittent spaces for huge residential purposes to both Public servants and people's housings.The idea is to develop Amaravati as a Green, Happy and Smart city with a 5–10–15 concept of 5 minutes to Emergency facilities, 10 minutes to open spaces and recreation and 15 minutes to Work place.The total APCR going to be 8603 sq Km in area with a total of 13 urban areas across two districts (Guntur &Krishna) including two major municipal corporations going to be part of it - Vijayawada metropolitan (160 sq km area with 10.35 lakh population) and Guntur corporation (with 168.41 sq km & 7.5 lakh populace).Additional 8 municipalities of Mangalagiri, Tadepalli, Tenali, Ponnuru and Sattenapalli (in Guntur district) and Nuzvidu, Gudivada and Jaggayyapeta (from Krishna dt) and two additional Nagara Panchayati's Nandigama and Vuyyuru (from Krishna district) are also be part of the total 'Andhra Pradesh Capital Region'.So, the Amaravati city with 9 different themed regions and additional thriving and self sustaining urban areas in the vicinity are hopefully going to make 'APCR' into a Mega Metropolitan area of Smart, Green, Happy, full of Vivacity and Economically Enterprising People's Capital City to join the League of Southern sister cities (Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Vizag, Pune, Trichy, Cochin, Coimbatore, Nagpur) to contribute to the Growth of India.One can log on to 'Amaravati ' for lot of first hand information of detailed and latest updates on 'Andhra Capital'.Thanking you for the opportunity.

I cannot exactly will be able to spell out based on what kind of comprehensive study report, our Visionary Chief Minister has chosen 'Amaravati' as the capital of Andhra Pradesh.But I can confidently tell that our Visionary CM Sri Nara Chandrababu Naidu garu must have got done Comprehensive studies from various experts and must have done enough Due-Diligence before arriving at decision making. We all were aware that various places were being suggested, proposed much before the present AP government came into existence and some of these candidate places were Visakhapatnam, Kurnool, Donakonda (in Ongole district) and present broader capital region.Building a State Capital Region (SCR) is a 'Once in a Blue Moon' kind of an opportunity and one need to take a comprehensive and long-standing outlook to come up with an Economically viable, Resourceful, Peaceful and Prosperous People's Capital.I would like to present a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities/Odds and Threats) analysis and highlight the factors playing For and Against some of these proposed SCR (State Capital Regions) like Vizag, Amaravati, Kurnool and Donakonda.VIZAG or Visakhapatnam:Strengths:In Vizag, we are already having a fastest growing Two-Tier city (next to 6 Metros of India) with an area of 682 sq km, it is the 14th largest city in India with a population of around 20 lakhs (as per 2011 census).Headquarters for Eastern Naval Command, a natural deep Harbor of vizag and Gangavaram port, Hindustan Shipyard, many public sector instituitions like BHPV, Steel plant, IOC hub, NTPC etc.,An established Industrial hub with many IT/ITes companies, Pharma companies, Ferro-Alloy and Aluminium industries and an upcoming Fintech valley.An excellent Tourist centre with some of the best beach resorts, near by tourist sites like Borra caves, Araku valley, the famous Lambasingi hill station that gets snow fall, religious tourist sites like Simhachalam.An excellent city with many reputed educational institutions like Andhra University, the newly set up IIM-Vizag, GITAM university (private), Indian Maritime University, NIO, IIPE etc.,.All these factors making the cosmopolitan Vizag, a truly ‘City of Destiny' with growing Industrial, Tourist, Educational and most imporantly as a Financial Hub in the eastcoast.Weaknesses:There is very limited land availabilty for the establishment of State Capital Infrastructure.The city itself growing longitudinal (North-South) with no scope for lateral growth because it is sandwiched between Sea and Eastern ghats.Vizag airport is actually a Naval military administered one and it cannot get many international airplanes because of security reasons because Eastern Naval Command's highly sensitive naval defence installations.Even the proposed International Airport had to be planned in Bhogapuram in the adjoining Vizianagaram district.Odds/Opportunities:From the AP state geographical perspective located at one extreme end of the very long coastline and from Rayalaseema region.Frankly speaking, for this peace loving City and people 'being a Political and Power Capital' is something doesn't suit at all as a genuine opinion (i can tell this as some one who have spent most important 7 years of my life).Already, being in the Uttarandhra region it is already target for raking up emotions by some divisive and upcoming Politicians (in the wake of original AP state got divided by politicians by raking up peoples emotions and sentiments.Threats:Being a coastal city Vizag is prone for Natural disasters (ex: recent Hud Hud cyclone)Being a strategic Eastern Naval Command headquarter - always on radar of Enemy countries and setting up the SCR will only further make it a soft target.Vizag district has got lot of hilly tribal agency areas (Narsipatnam - Araku-Borra caves) - already in the past 3 decades, lot of people from plains have acquired lot of tribal lands by deception and even by resorting to marrying hilly tribal ladies. Now if Capital has to be located, will only further worsen the situation of hilly tribal agency people.Already one former Congress(now YSRCP and prominent minister from Srikakulam) has an evil eye on Bauxite mines located in Hilly region of tribals.Summary:So overall if we see the entire SWOT analysis, it is always better to allow Vizag as a best Industrial, Economical and Financial Hub for the entire East Coast of India rather than forcing it to become a Political Capital. In my personal opinion it is always better to have seperate Political and Financial capitals.Before going for the case of Amaravati, let us see the analysis forDonakonda and Kurmool;Strengths:Land availability should not be a problem for these two locations.Availability of a world war II air strip of British is an advantage for Donakonda which is from Prakasam district.For Kurnool being on the banks of Tungabhadra (opportunity for Riverfront capital), availability of water resource is promising and also its proximity to Srisailam dam on river Krishna. Kurnool also happened to be the capital of Andhra state briefly after it got seperated from Madras state and before got aligned with Telangana.Weakness:A big weakness for Donakonda is it being a too small town-village like place with Arid Barren lands and severe water shortage with no thriving Economically developed and other urban areas in the near by vicinity.Kurnool town (just 69.51 sq Km in area with population of 4.3 lakhs) on southern border to Telangana, with no chance/scope to grow northernly. On the easternside it has got lot of Forest area (Nallamala) and western side border with Karnataka making it an unattractive location for expansion possible only in southward direction towards Nandyala, Gooty-Guntakal and towards Anantapuram (this kind of expansion makes this purported region more proximal to Bangalore rather than to the rest of AP).Kurnool in-spite being a district headquarter, the town infrastructure really doesn't have any additional advantage for an economical viability with no other major urban areas in the near vicinity.Both the locations doesn't have a very good connectivity (air and port connectivity).Odds/Opportunities:Kurnool being a small town with limited resources for an Economically Viable and enterprising capital that can potentially become the 7th Big Metro City for India.Even though Kurnool is on the banks of Tungabhadra it is on the tail end and much before it merges with Krishna river - making it unattractive as the availability of water depends on release of water from Tungabhadra Dam in Hospete, Karnataka. Offlate due to too many states sharing Krishna water basin and increased Dam height of Alamatti in Karnataka - there is scarcity of water in Krishna river in-spite normal monsoon in the last couple of years. By the way AP is more of a civilization connected to rivers Godavari and Krishna rather than Tungabhadra.Even Donakonda like Kurnool doesn' have any advantage with no bigtime development in the vicinity to make a case for a thriving, Potential & Prosperous SCR.Threats:Kurnool being on an extreme location being far-off from other regions of the state. There is already a demand (even though not a popular) for a 'seperate Rayalaseema' demand from an insignificant 'Rayalaseema Porata Samiti'.‘Donakonda' being a small flat town surrounded by hilly terrain, with severe shortage of water resources and no major already thriving economic activity.Summary:So, both these locations (Donakonda and Kurnool) doesn't have Potential viability to become 7th biggest Metro City in the country.Let us now look at the prospectus of ‘Amaravati’ as a potential contender as a location for 'SCR'.Amaravati:Strengths:Excellent oportunity for world class River front Capital with ample water resource to support a fururistic Mega Metropolitan State Capital Region {by the way in modern India the only major Riverfront City (part of capital) is Ahmedabad on banks of Sabarmati - unlike many of the ancient India's Capital kingdoms like Ujjain, Ayodhya, Mahishmati-Maheshwar (depicted in the 'Gautamiputra Satakarni movie'), Kannauj, Kampilya, Kasi, Rajamahendravaram}.Availability of ample water is very crucial for the futuristic growth of a Mega Metropolis for the human sustenance (best example: Mumbai BMMC).Almost Centric location of Amaravati from both Uttarandhra and Rayalaseema districts making it equi-accessible from all the corners of the state and can be a balanced proposition.Amaravati location has another advantage of two major economically thriving Urban Muncipal Corporations - Viajayawada (Metropolitan city of 160 sq Km area with a population of 10.4 lakhs) and Guntur (a big town corporation of 168.41 sq Km area with about 7.5 lakh population) and another muncipality in Mangalagiri with an area of 17.53 sq Km and a population of 75 thousand. Apart from this another 7 municipalities and 2 Nagar Panchayatis are accessible within the vicinity of 30 kms from the proposed Seed capital.Availability of Vijayawada-Guntur-Tenali (VGT) Urban Development Authority (UDA) at disposal.Accessability to an existing Airport at Gannavaram (which now has been upgraded to an international terminal).Connectivity with three near by (80 - 100 km) Ports of Machilipatnam, Nizampatnam and Vadrevu (which came into prominence after turning down of Duggarajapatnam port under AP reorganization act).Accessability to two major Railway junctions which also happened to be Rly Divisions in Vijayawada (BZA) and Guntur (GNT) and excellent road transport with proximal NH5 - Chennai - Kolkata National Highway that also happened to be the eastern arm of Golden Quadrilateral. already existing University (Nagarjuna Univ) and established Educational hubs (private Vignan and KL Universities).It is not so close (80–100 km away) to Sea Coast of Bay of Bengal which is infamous for Cyclonic storms (ex: recent Hud-Hud toofan of Vizag and the infamous Diviseema Uppena of 70s).Weaknesses:Except for proximity two major Urban areas, there is no existing infrastructure in Amaravati region - rather than being a weakness, it is an excellent opportunity to bridge the gap of 36 km between BZA & GNT with a westwardly expansion on the river front till ancient temple town of Amaravati (one of seat Capitals of Andhra Satavahanas).Non-availabity of ample water in Krishna River basin with too many states sharing waters - this has been solved already with the Pattiseema lift Irrigation (and permanent solution of Polavaram multipurpose dam project) to link Godavari river waters with Krishna river ahead of Prakasam barrage.Odds/Opportunities:Highly fertile landmass is going to be lost for SCR - AP being mostly an agrarian state somewhere one need to compromise except for barren arid lands of Rayalaseem districts and Prakasam districts where there is shortage of water.Possible harm to nearby Kondapalli Forest Reserve - the SCR can still be possible keeping it and coming up with Greenfield Capital arena.Threats:Possible flooding of capital region from 'Kondaveeti Vagu' - with proper embankment river bank, flooding can be avoided (a special Flood Mitigation plan has already been adapted into the city master plan).Possible threat of regional seperatism of backward districts of Rayalaseema and Uttarandhra - with the provision of special grant for backward districts as part of AP reorganization Act and a concerted concious effort of setting up industries and growth factors in those areas, this can be addressed as a permanent solution.Summary:Amaravati presents an unique opportunity for Telugu people and Andhra Pradesh to completely build a new People's capital which can in near future has the potential to become a 'Mega Metropolitan Capital Region' that can be tranformed into a Sustainable and Thriving People's Capital of Enterprise, Economic and Political activity.I am very sure that our Visionary CM Sri CBN ji must have got done much more powerful Analysis survey on many more points I might have missed.Status Update:Local farmers sensing an Unique opportunity voluntarily came forward to give 33 thousand acres of precious land under the 'Land Pooling model' at the appeal of CM and AP state government.This has now become an unique model of People's and Public Government's joint development to build a Capital from scratch.AP government engaged Singapore based professional institutions to come up with master plan for ‘Andhra Pradesh Capital Region' (APCR) with the help of world famous architects as consultants for design of major buildings of the Seed Capital.APCRDA (Development Authority) and ADC (Amaravati Development Corporation) have come up with plans of 'Amaravati Core Capital city' in an area of 217.23 sq Km.The Seed capital (hub of Government's administrative arena) is going to be in 16.94 sq Km area.The core Capital city is going to be having 9 themed cities - Government, Justice, Knowledge, Education, Finance, Sports, Tourism, Electronic and Media counter parts with intermittent spaces for huge residential purposes to both Public servants and people's housings.The idea is to develop Amaravati as a Green, Happy and Smart city with a 5–10–15 concept of 5 minutes to Emergency facilities, 10 minutes to open spaces and recreation and 15 minutes to Work place.The total APCR going to be 8603 sq Km in area with a total of 13 urban areas across two districts (Guntur &Krishna) including two major municipal corporations going to be part of it - Vijayawada metropolitan (160 sq km area with 10.35 lakh population) and Guntur corporation (with 168.41 sq km & 7.5 lakh populace).Additional 8 municipalities of Mangalagiri, Tadepalli, Tenali, Ponnuru and Sattenapalli (in Guntur district) and Nuzvidu, Gudivada and Jaggayyapeta (from Krishna dt) and two additional Nagara Panchayati's Nandigama and Vuyyuru (from Krishna district) are also be part of the total 'Andhra Pradesh Capital Region'.So, the Amaravati city with 9 different themed regions and additional thriving and self sustaining urban areas in the vicinity are hopefully going to make 'APCR' into a Mega Metropolitan area of Smart, Green, Happy, full of Vivacity and Economically Enterprising People's Capital City to join the League of Southern sister cities (Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Vizag, Pune, Trichy, Cochin, Coimbatore, Nagpur) to contribute to the Growth of India.One can log on to 'Amaravati ' for lot of first hand information of detailed and latest updates on 'Andhra Capital'.Thanking you for the opportunity.

Why was Amaravati chosen as the capital of Andhra Pradesh instead of Vizag?One could see there are already 8 different viewpoints presented with some of them highligting very valid points like a) Central location of Amaravati b) Historical background of being one of the ancient Capitals of Andhra Satavahanas c) availability of Water resource in the form of river Krishna.Building a State Capital Region (SCR) is a 'Once in a Blue Moon' kind of an opportunity and one need to take a comprehensive and long-standing outlook to come up with a Economically viable, Resourceful, Peaceful and Prosperous People's Capital.I would like to present a SWOT analysis and highlight the factors playing For and Against some of the proposed SCR (State Capital Regions) like Vizag, Amaravati, Kurnool and Donakonda.VIZAG:Strengths:In Vizag, we are already having a fastest growing Two-Tier city (next to 6 Metros of India) with an area of 682 sq km, it is the 14th largest city in India with a population of around 20 lakhs (as per 2011 census).Headquarters for Eastern Naval Command, a natural deep Harbor of vizag and Gangavaram port, Hindustan Shipyard, many public sector instituitions like BHPV, Steel plant, IOC hub, NTPC etc.,An established Industrial hub with many IT/ITes companies, Pharma companies, Ferro-Alloy and Aluminium industries and an upcoming Fintech valley.An excellent Tourist centre with some of the best beach resorts, near by tourist sites like Borra caves, Araku valley, the famous Lambasingi hill station that gets snow fall, religious tourist sites like Simhachalam.An excellent city with many reputed educatiinal institutions like Andhra University, the newly set up IIM-Vizag, GITAM university (private), Indian Maritime University, NIO, IIPE etc.,.All these factors making the cosmopolitan Vizag, a truly ‘City of Destiny' with growing Industrial, Tourist, Educational and most imporantly as a Financial Hub in the eastcoast.Weaknesses:Vizag being the headquarters for the Eastern Naval Command with so many Naval military installations and even the vizag airport is under control of Naval defence with so many restrictions for international air traffic (this is one reason why a new International airport being at Bhogapuram in Vizianagaram district.There is very limited land availabilty for the establishment of State Capital Infrastructure.The city itself growing longitudinal (North-South) with no scope for lateral growth because it is sandwiched between Sea and Eastern ghats.Odds/Opportunities:From the AP state geographical perspective located at one extreme end of the very long coastline and from Rayalaseema region.Frankly speaking, for this peace loving City and people 'being a Political and Power Capital' is something doesn't suit at all as a genuine opinion (i can tell this as some one who have spent most important 7 years of my life).Already, being in the Uttarandhra region it is already target for raking up emotions by some divisive and upcoming Politicians (in the wake of original AP state got divided by politicians by raking up peoples emotions and sentiments.Threats:Being a coastal city Vizag is prone for Natural disasters (ex: recent Hud Hud cyclone)Being a strategic Eastern Naval Command headquarter - always on radar of Enemy countries and setting up the SCR will only further make it a soft target.Summary:So overall if we see the entire SWOT analysis, it is always better to allow Vizag as a best Industrial, Economical and Financial Hub for the entire East Coast of India rather than forcing it to become a Political Capital. In my personal opinion it is always better to have seperate Political and Financial capitals.Before going for the case of Amaravati, let us see the analysis forDonakonda and Kurmool;Strengths:Land availability should not be a problem for these two locations.Availability of a world war II air strip of British is an advantage for Donakonda which is from Prakasam district.For Kurnool being on the banks of Tungabhadra (opportunity for Riverfront capital), availability of water resource is promising and also its proximity to Srisailam dam on river Krishna. Kurnool also happened to be the capital of Andhra state briefly after it got seperated from Madras state and before got aligned with Telangana.Weakness:A big weakness for Donakonda is it being a too small town-village like place with Arid Barren lands and severe water shortage with no thriving Economically developed and other urban areas in the near by vicinity.Kurnool town (just 69.51 sq Km in area with population of 4.3 lakhs) on southern border to Telangana, with no chance/scope to grow northernly. On the easternside it has got lot of Forest area (Nallamala) and western side border with Karnataka making it an unattractive location for expansion possible only in southward direction towards Nandyala, Gooty-Guntakal and towards Anantapuram (this kind of expansion makes this purported region more proximal to Bangalore rather than to the rest of AP).Kurnool in-spite being a district headquarter, the town infrastructure really doesn't have any additional advantage for an economical viability with no other major urban areas in the near vicinity.Both the locations doesn't have a very good connectivity (air and port connectivity).Odds/Opportunities:Kurnool being a small town with limited resources for an Economically Viable and enterprising capital that can potentially become the 7th Big Metro City for India.Even though Kurnool is on the banks of Tungabhadra it is on the tail end and much before it merges with Krishna river - making it unattractive as the availability of water depends on release of water from Tungabhadra Dam in Hospete, Karnataka. Offlate due to too many states sharing Krishna water basin and increased Dam height of Alamatti in Karnataka - there is scarcity of water in Krishna river in-spite normal monsoon in the last couple of years. By the way AP is more of a civilization connected to rivers Godavari and Krishna rather than Tungabhadra.Even Donakonda like Kurnool doesn' have any advantage with no bigtime development in the vicinity to make a case for a thriving, Potential & Prosperous SCR.Threats:Kurnool being on an extreme location being a far-off from other regions of the state. There is already a demand (even though not a popular) for a 'seperate Rayalaseema' demand from an insignificant 'Rayalaseema Porata Samiti'.‘Donakonda' being a small flat town surrounded by hilly terrain, with severe shortage of water resources and no major already thriving economic activity.Summary:So, both these locations (Donakonda and Kurnool) doesn't have Potential viability to become 6th biggest Metro City in the country.Let us now look at the prospectus of ‘Amaravati’ as a potential contender as a location for 'SCR'.Amaravati:Strengths:Excellent oportunity for world class River front Capital with ample water resource to support a fururistic Mega Metropolitan State Capital Region {by the way in modern India the only major Riverfront City (part of capital) is Ahmedabad on banks of Sabarmati - unlike many of the ancient India's Capital kingdoms like Ujjain, Ayodhya, Mahishmati-Maheshwar (depicted in the 'Gautamiputra Satakarni movie'), Kannauj, Kampilya, Kasi, Rajamahendravaram}.Availability of ample water is very crucial for the futuristic growth of a Mega Metropolis for the human sustenance (best example: Mumbai BMMC).Almost Centric location of Amaravati from both Uttarandhra and Rayalaseema districts making it equi-accessible from all the corners of the state and can be a balanced proposition.Amaravati location has another advantage of two major economically thriving Urban Muncipal Corporations - Viajayawada (Metropolitan city of 160 sq Km area with a population of 10.4 lakhs) and Guntur (a big town corporation of 168.41 sq Km area with about 7.5 lakh population) and another muncipality in Mangalagiri with an area of 17.53 sq Km and a population of 75 thousand. Apart from this another 7 municipalities and 2 Nagar Panchayatis are accessible within the vicinity of 30 kms from the proposed Seed capital.Availability of Vijayawada-Guntur-Tenali (VGT) Urban Development Authority (UDA) at disposal.Accessability to an existing Airport at Gannavaram (which now has been upgraded to an international terminal).Connectivity with three near by (80 - 100 km) Ports of Machilipatnam, Nizampatnam and Vadrevu (which came into prominence after turning down of Duggarajapatnam port under AP reorganization act).Accessability to two major Railway junctions which also happened to be Rly Divisions in Vijayawada (BZA) and Guntur (GNT) and excellent road transport with proximal NH5 - Chennai - Kolkata National Highway that also happened to be the eastern arm of Golden Quadrilateral. already existing University (Nagarjuna Univ) and established Educational hubs (private Vignan and KL Universities).It is not so close (80–100 km away) to Sea Coast of Bay of Bengal which is infamous for Cyclonic storms (ex: recent Hud-Hud toofan of Vizag).Weaknesses:Except for proximity two major Urban areas, there is no existing infrastructure in Amaravati region - rather than being a weakness, it is an excellent opportunity to bridge the gap of 36 km between BZA & GNT with a westwardly expansion on the river front till ancient temple town of Amaravati (one of seat Capital of Andhra Satavahanas).Non-availabity of ample water in Krishna River basin with too many states sharing waters - this has been solved already with the Pattiseema lift Irrigation (and permanent solution of Polavaram multipurpose dam project) to link Godavari river waters with Krishna river ahead of Prakasam barrage.Odds/Opportunities:Highly fertile landmass is going to be lost for SCR - AP being mostly an agrarian state somewhere one need to compromise except for barren arid lands of Rayalaseem districts and Prakasam districts where there is shortage of water.Possible harm to nearby Kondapalli Forest Reserve - the SCR can still be possible keeping it and coming up with Greenfield Capital arena.Threats:Possible flooding of capital region from 'Kondaveeti Vagu' - with proper embankment river bank, flooding can be avoided (a special Flood Mitigation plan has already been adapted into the city master plan).Possible threat of regional seperatism of backward districts of Rayalaseema and Uttarandhra - with the provision of special grant for backward districts as part of AP reorganization Act and a concerted concious effort of setting up industries and growth factors in those areas, this can be addressed as a permanent solution.Summary:Amaravati presents an unique opportunity for Telugu people and Andhra Pradesh to completely build a new People's capital which can in near future has the potential to become a 'Mega Metropolitan Capital Region' that can be tranformed into a Sustainable and Thriving People's Capital of Enterprise, Economic and Political activity.Status Update:Local farmers sensing an Unique opportunity voluntarily came forward to give 33 thousand acres of precious land under the 'Land Pooling model' at the appeal of CM and AP state government.This has now become an unique model of People's and Public Government's joint development to build a Capital from scratch.AP government engaged Singapore based professional institutions to come up with master plan for ‘Andhra Pradesh Capital Region' (APCR) with the help of world famous architects as consultants for design of major buildings of the Seed Capital.APCRDA (Development Authority) and ADC (Amaravati Development Corporation) have come up with plans of 'Amaravati Core Capital city' in an area of 217.23 sq Km.The Seed capital (hub of Government's administrative arena) is going to be in 16.94 sq Km area.The core Capital city is going to be having 9 themed cities - Government, Justice, Knowledge, Education, Finance, Sports, Tourism, Electronic and Media counter parts with intermittent spaces for huge residential purposes to both Public servants and people's housings.The idea is to develop Amaravati as a Green, Happy and Smart city with a 5–10–15 concept of 5 minutes to Emergency facilities, 10 minutes to open spaces and recreation and 15 minutes to Work place.The total APCR going to be 8603 sq Km in area with a total of 13 urban areas across two districts (Guntur &Krishna) including two major municipal corporations going to be part of it - Vijayawada metropolitan (160 sq km area with 10.35 lakh population) and Guntur corporation (with 168.41 sq km & 7.5 lakh populace).Additional 8 municipalities of Mangalagiri, Tadepalli, Tenali, Ponnuru and Sattenapalli (in Guntur district) and Nuzvidu, Gudivada and Jaggayyapeta (from Krishna dt) and two additional Nagara Panchayati's Nandigama and Vuyyuru (from Krishna district) are also be part of the total 'Andhra Pradesh Capital Region'.So, the Amaravati city with 9 different themed regions and additional thriving and self sustaining urban areas in the vicinity are hopefully going to make 'APCR' into a Mega Metropolitan area of Smart, Green, Happy, full of Vivacity and Economically Enterprising People's Capital City to join the League of Southern sister cities (Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Vizag, Pune, Trichy, Cochin, Coimbatore, Nagpur) to contribute to the Growth of India.One can log on to 'Amaravati ' for lot of first hand information of detailed and latest updates on 'Andhra Capital'.Thanking you for the opportunity.