If the reports from the Andhra Pradesh government are to be believed, the name of the proposed new capital for the State will be: Tarakarama Nagar.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu is likely to make an announcement to this effect in the State Assembly on September 4. Perhaps, he is thinking on the lines of Gandhinagar, the administrative capital of Gujarat, though its original capital city is Ahmedabad.
Agriculture Minister Patthipati Pulla Rao said the party was planning to name the capital after former chief minister late Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao.
The new capital needs adequate land bank for facilities and infrastructure, he said.
Farmers in Krishna district are ready to give about 8,000 acres for the new capital if the Government names the new capital as Tarakarama Nagar on the lines of Gujarat's capital being Gandhinagar, the minister stated.
The Chief Minister, who is unlikely to adopt the recommendations of the Sivaramakrishnan Committee on the new capital, was planning otherwise.
Naidu is most likely to reveal his mind in the Assembly on September 4, being considered an auspicious date. Later, he would address the Telugu Desam Legislature Party meeting where he would prepare ministers to take on the Opposition party's voice against the government decision.
