Court puts plans for Amaravati back on the table in Andhra Pradesh, in India

It rejected the state government's plan for a"decentralised" capital with the executive, judicial, and legislative centres in separate locations.

"The state assembly has no powers to make any further laws on the capital city. No office should be shifted from Amaravati to any other place," the court added. Singapore had been involved in the Amaravati project since 2014, when Andhra Pradesh lost its capital city, Hyderabad, to the newly created state of Telangana. A whole new city was planned on the banks of the river Krishna, on 684 hectares of village and farmland.

The next month, Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy announced the government's plan for"a decentralised capital" with the executive, judicial, and legislative centres in Visakhapatnam, Kurnool, and Amaravati respectively. Since the idea of a modern hi-tech city was conceived eight years ago, 13,932 hectares were pooled from about 29,000 farmers in the fertile riverside region, but the lack of investor interest, political rivalries, farmers' protests, environmental concerns and corruption allegations have severely delayed the project.

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