page_title: Amaravati
section_title: Timeline
hierarchical_section_title: Amaravati / Timeline
caption_attribution_description: English: Amaravati is a planned city in Andhra Pradesh which was designed by Architect Norman Forster
context_page_description: Amaravati is the capital and the de facto seat of government of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The city is located on the banks of river Krishna in Guntur District and the primary city of the state's Capital Region. Built on allotted space on the southern banks of Krishna River in Guntur district selected close to the geographical center of the state.
  Amaravati was founded by former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in 2014 as the Greenfield administrative capital city of the Andhra Pradesh state, and its foundation stone was laid at Uddandarayunipalem by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi on 22 October 2015.
  The office of the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh has operated from Velagapudi since April 2016. The Andhra Pradesh Legislature remained in Hyderabad until March 2017, when it relocated to newly constructed interim legislative buildings in Velagapudi.
caption: Construction equipment at Government complex in Amaravati (January 2019)
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