Ahead of the shift of the government machinery and the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam, the Andhra Pradesh Tourism Department has readied four buildings at Rushikonda Hill facing the sea shore. The palatial buildings are named after Vijayanagara, Gajapathi, Kalinga and Vengi— the dynasties that once ruled the land.
These buildings, among others, are most likely to be used as the official or residential facilities of the top government functionaries, according to sources in the government.
For the record, the State government has decided to shift the Executive Capital (Secretariat) from Amaravati to Visakhapatnam as part of its decentralisation exercise. Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, while inaugurating the Infosys Development Centre in Visakhapatnam on October 16 (Monday), said that he was supposed to shift to the city but will be making the move in that direction before December.
