Dram capital Amaravati has withstood the test of time and giving a fitting reply to the vicious camping that YCP leaders carried out for the last five years that it is in the danger zone of floods and cannot withstand heavy rains. Even after river Krishna received unprecedented flood water that was never witnessed in its history and the Vijayawada city locked in a dangerous zone, Amaravati remained safe.
Many forces tried to break the capital region, accusing it of being under a sinking zone and warned that as it is adjacent to the Krishna river, it would be affected by floods and drown. That was one of the main reasons for the ill-motivated attempt of shifting the capital to Visakhapatnam.
Though YCP’s blue media cooked up false stories that the entire capital region was submerged, it remained untouched, besides both Vijayawada and Guntur cities on two sides badly affected. YCP posted fake videos in the social media alleging that Amaravati has in fact sunk. But the situation at the field level proved different.
The core capital area where the High Court, Secretariat and Assembly buildings are built remained as the most secure. In the villages of the capital also there is no flood anywhere except standing water due to rain. Roads leading to the High Court, the roads leading to the buildings of legislators and council members, the Seed Axis Road, the building complexes of All India Service employees, and the vicinity of buildings of Group-D employees remained unaffected.
Despite the impact of the cyclone and the heavy rains, those sky-high structures have remained intact. The then TDP government took all kinds of precautions during the formulation of the master plan of the capital city of Amaravati. Kondaveeti rivulet was identified as the only possibility of flooding in capital villages.
Steps were taken to save the capital from its inundation. Lifts were installed to prevent the flood water from the tributary normally meeting the Krishna River, but during the highest flood, there would be no problem.
But there are allegations that during the YCP government, instead of using these lifts, they tried to flood Amaravati with flood water from Kondaveeti. Now the same lifts have helped to save Amaravati from the flood of Kondaveeti stream.
A large embankment blocks the river in the middle of the capital area. The flood water reached it and stopped. Some of the buildings in the middle of the two were flooded to some extent.