Hyderabad: The first phase of the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region master plan prepared by Singapore and approved by the AP Cabinet has a recreational beach road along the Krishna River.

The beach road will have resorts, riverside bar and restaurants, water sports and other facilities.

AP government’s communications adviser Parakala Prabhakar said on Friday, “The beach road will be part of a recreation zone likely to contain theme parks, eateries, movie theatres and water sports. The particulars will be decided after selection of the developer.”

Apart from recreation, the master plan contains trade-related waterways including development of water logistics hubs at Vijayawada and Tenali. It proposes to establish a connection between the Buckingham Canal between north and south sections of Krishna for easy engineering solutions.

The Capital Regional Development Authority (CRDA) is already developing a riverfront project, known as the Krishna Vijay Sagar project, downstream from Prakasam Barrage to a distance of 10 km.

Now as per the capital plan, recreational beach roads will be developed in both Krishna and Guntur districts upstream and downstream of Amaravati.

As the land pooling process has been completed, the AP government will now focus on basic development of the area and allotting plots to farmers as their share by May.

Mr Prabhakar said, “Selection of a master developer is the crucial part now. Several big companies with huge resources, not only from Japan and Singapore, but also from European countries and South Africa, have the potential to take up the massive work of building the capital. Around Rs 5 lakh crore worth projects will be taken up in the entire area in the next two decades. So it’s a big task.”

Representatives of several top companies are visiting the capital area now named after Amaravati. The capital region will have one metropolitan city, Vijayawada, one large city, Guntur, nine medium towns, and 291 small towns and villages with a total existing population of 58 lakh which is projected to go up to 1.1 crore by 2035.