Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based Satya Vani Projects and Consultants Private Limited (SVPCPL) has bagged the contract to prepare the master plan of the temporary capital of Andhra Pradesh. The agency has been given three weeks to submit a master plan, layout plan, interior design, concept plan and details of the drawings of the buildings to set up the temporary capital. Based on the plans and designs, INCAP will again call for tenders from agencies to take up construction of the temporary capital. The tender process will be completed in another three weeks.

SVPCPL will also act as the project management consultant and ensure that six lakh square feet of built-up area is constructed by June. AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu wants important offices shifted from Hyderabad to the temporary capital in Andhra Pradesh by June 7, a day before the Telugu Desam government completes one year in office after bifurcation of the state. Satya Vani, with its headquarters at Khairatabad in Hyderabad, was one among the five short-listed companies of the total 11 firms in the race.

“The company qualified in the technical stage and it has been finalised to design the temporary capital of AP,” said INCAP vice-chairman Sambasiva Rao. About six lakh square feet of built-up space would be created in the temporary capital to accommodate offices of the AP government to be shifted from Hyderabad.

The location of the temporary capital is yet to be finalised. Though Amaravati township layout in Guntur district was earlier decided as the location, the state government has changed its mind. “Satya Vani was finalised based on its technical qualifications. It  executed several projects both in India and abroad,” Mr Rao said.

Source: DC