Amaravati Metropolitan Region Development Authority


The Amaravati metropolitan Region Development Authority as constituted under Section 4 of the Principal Act shall cease to
exist.

History

The AMRDA was formerly known as APCRDA and the former was VGTM Urban Development Authority, which was formed in 1978 with an area of. In 2012, it was expanded to. Post bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, it was defunct and was renamed as APCRDA.. APCRDA is Defunct now and Amaravati Metropolitan Development Authority is formed. The head office of the authority is located at Lenin centre in Vijayawada. It also has three sub-registrar offices at Thullur, Ananthavaram and Mandadam. The present commissioner of the authority is P. Lakshmi Narasimham. The authority has a jurisdictional area of, covering the districts of Guntur and Krishna, including of the state capital, Amaravati.

AMRDA

The areas within the jurisdiction of APCRDA under the principal Act, viz., the A.P.
Capital Region shall be deemed to be constituted as Amaravati Metropolitan Region
Development Area under the Andhra Pradesh Metropolitan Region and Urban
Development Authorities Act, 2016 notwithstanding the procedure contained in Section
3 of the said Act. The Metropolitan Region and Urban Development Authorities
constituted under Section 4 of the said Act to be named as the Amaravati Metropolitan
Region Development Authority shall be notified
by the Government on the cessation of APCRDA.