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A Half-Billion Dollar Urban Vision Stalls in India

Politics -- or chicanery -- end a dream

Oct 27, 2023
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By: Nava Thakuria
What it was going to be

Amaravati, envisioned as the newly minted smart capital city of Andhra Pradesh on India’s southeastern coast, is a mirage sunk either by criminality or a political vendetta or both, despite the commitment of half a billion US dollars by the World Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the lending insti…

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