8 PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL

INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY
This chapter presents the physical and social infrastructure strategy for Amaravati Capital city. Primarily
dealing in public facilities, the chapter covers the following topics:

1. Norms
2. Benchmarking of Public Facility Standards
3. Proposed Public Facility Standards
4. Commercial Facilities
5. Educational Facilities
6. Health Facilities
7. Civic Facilities
8. Religious Facilities
9. Recreational Facilities
10. Cremation and Burial Facilities

View from the barrage looking towards river Krishna

 8.1 INTRODUCTION
Provision of adequate public services
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and facilities represent a key challenge
for development of a new Capital City,
notably in terms of safety and security
issues. Based on future requirements,
these services and facilities it is
important to ensure that all residents
Commercial Facilities benefit equitably from these facilities.
Civic and recreational facility provisions
also play a critical role in determining
the quality of life within Amaravati
Capital City. Civic facilities are basic
services that cannot be supplied
directly to individual dwelling units but
that aim at satisfying specific needs of
the community.
Civic Facilities Planning intention:
The quality of life in a city depends
on the availability of quality services
and facilities and their accessibility.
The provision of excellent services and
facilities will promote health, safety,
morals, and the general welfare of the
community which in-line with the
master plans goal to promote Quality
Living in Amaravati Capital city.
Health Facilities Objectives:
Proposed public services and
facilities are provided at the city,
town and neighbourhood levels. The
main objectives in terms of social
infrastructure will be:
To provide neighbourhood level
Public services and facilities within
reach of 5-10 minute walking
distance.
Recreation Facilities
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To ensure safety and security of
citizens by planning these facilities
carefully in central locations.
8.2 NORMS
The Amaravati Capital City Master
Plan ensures adequate provision of
civic facilities across the Capital city
by proposing a public facility provision
standard for the city. This standard
has been carefully planned to suit
the Indian context and follows
the URDFI guidelines. Also took
into consideration of references
from other well planned cities such
as Singapore, Cape town etc. These
standards have been discussed in detail
in Chapter 4 - Amaravati Capital City
Projections. The public facilities within
the Amaravati Capital city have been
planned at 4 hierarchical levels.
These include:
State/ City Level
Regional/ District Level
Township Level
Local/ Neighbourhood Level
State & city Level Civic Facilities
As the new state capital, the city will
host a number of large-specialized
facilities catering to state and the capital
region. These include large multi-
disciplinary hospitals, sports stadiums,
multidisciplinary national university,
etc. As the administrative capital, the
city will house important government
offices and public institutions such as
high court, legislative assembly and
the secretariat. Other large state level
social infrastructure including science
centers, convention halls, cultural
centres, tourism hub etc will also be
housed with the city.
Regional Level Civic Facilities
Regional level civic facilities including
district hospitals, sports and recreation
facilities, civic plaza/ central park as
well as libraries, have been planned
based on the anticipated population
catchment of each zone illustrated in
the city structure plan. These facilities
are usually planned in proximity to
the regional centre, and will act as a
weekend destination for the residents
of the particular region it serves. They
are mostly of considerable scale with
sufficient capacity to host city level
events.
Township Level Civic Facilities
In line with the township model,
numerous civic and community
facilities required by a town will be
provided in close proximity to the
town centre. Facilities including small
hospitals/ polyclinics, crematoriums,
cremation grounds and cemeteries
will be provided in accordance to the
population catchment.
Facilities to serve community cultural
and recreational needs, such as place
of worship, town library, sports &
recreational facilities and town parks,
will be located in a central location that
maximizes accessibility to the service
population.
Each township will also offer at least
one vocational/ higher education
institute with sports field/ swimming
complex located close to these
education facilities to increase its usage
frequency. In the daytime, physical
education can be conducted on the
sports field and swimming pool for the
students, and serve the public needs
for sports and wellness activities in the
off-office hours.
Local Level Civic Facilities
The main agenda of the local
level facilities is to serve the daily
community needs through the
provision of relatively small-scale local
facilities such as primary/secondary
schools and health centres. In contrary
to national level facilities, central
location to the respective service
population is a key element for the
planning of civic facilities at this level,
and walking distance for the users is
carefully considered in the evaluation
of accessibility of the decided location.
To increase the economies of scale,
local and neighbourhood level facilities
like post offices, health centres, police
posts are incorporated within the
neighbourhood centres.
8.3 BENCHMARKING PUBLIC FACILITY STANDARDS
Benchmarking Public Facility Standards
Community Facilities South Africa Peninsular Malaysia Singapore avg hh = 3.5 persons Hong Kong India (URDPFI) Proposed for Amaravati City
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1 per 2,400 - 3,0002km, min.
130 sqm, near park or work- 1 per 2,500 population740sqm 1 per 2,500 population 0.08 ha
Nursery School/ Kindergarten - 1 per 2,500 population 0.08 ha
places to support working par- or 0.1ha for 4 classrooms (within NC)
ents
1 per avg 7,000 5km, new 1 per 7,500 pop; min 3,000 (12
1 per 7,600 DU or 26,600, 1 per 10,000-15,000 popula-
Educational Facilities Primary School schools to use communal classrooms), 1 per 5,000 population 0.4 ha
1.8ha tion 1.5 ha
sports facilities if possible
1 per avg 12,5005km, new 1 per 9,000 population3.6 or
Secondary School schools to use communal 3-6ha (4-6ha if mild slope) max 1 per 10,400 DU or 36,400,3ha 1 per 7,500 population 1.80 ha 1 per 30,000 Population 3 Ha
sports facilities if possible 1.6km radius (10-20 mins walk)
1 per 100,000 population, 1
Junior College N/A 1 per town. 5.0 ha site N/A N/A 1 per 1,00,000 population 6 Ha
ha site
Small to medium-sized: 1 per
1 clinic for every 100,000 per- Clinic and Dispensary 1 per Clinic and Dispensary 1 per
Health centre/ clinics 5-20,000, min 0.2halarge: 1 1 per 4,000-5,0000.2ha -
sons (2200sqm) 15,000 (0.12 ha) 15,000 (0.12 ha) (within NC)
per 3-50,000, min 0.5ha
Polyclinic: 1 per 1,00,000 Polyclinic: 1 per 1,00,000
One specialist clinic/polyclinic
Community health centre: 60- 1 per 15,000 - 20,000 2ha, 1km population 0.3 Ha; Nursing population 0.3 Ha; Nursing
Polyclinic 1 per 45,000 DU or 157,500 whenever a regional or district
140,000 people, 1.5ha radius home/Maternity Centre 1 per home/Maternity Centre 1 per
hospital is built. (4700sqm)
1,00,000 population 0.3 ha 1,00,000 population 0.3 ha
Health & Medical
Intermediate Hospital (Cat A):
1 per 1,00,000 population 3.7 Ha;
38,000 pop Intermediate Hospital (Cat B):
(76 beds, 12ha)50,000 Proposed and identified on a 1 per 1,00,000 population 1 Ha;
Regional: 1.77 mil
Hospitals (100 beds, 12ha)375,000 city/regional scale4.5 beds / 5.5 beds/ 1000 person Multi specialty Hospital:
District: 3-900,000, 5ha
(250 beds, 18ha)375,000 1000 population 1 per 1,00,000 population 6.35 Ha ;
(750 beds, 30ha) General Hospital:
1 per 2.50,000 population 6.0 Ha

1 per 7,700 DU or 26,9500.3-

Places of Worships / Religious 1 per 2000 people(150sqm to 0.45ha 1.5 per 1,00,000 population (1
Place of Worship N/A
Centres 3000sqm) 1 per town with 20,000 DU or Ha)
more or 70,0000.25ha
City-level:
City-level: 1 per 500,000- 1
Town park: 1 per town, 10ha- 1 per 500,000- 1 mil, district:
mil, district: 1 per 60,000 -
neighbourhood park: 1 per Local/ neighbourhood: 1 per 1 per 60,000 - 1,00,000com-
Parks & Open Space Park 100,000community: 1 per
neighbourhood, 3ha for 15,000 munity:
60,000local/neigh: 1 per
16,000 people 1 per 60,000local/neigh: 1 per
3-15,000
15,000
International: 1 per 1.5milRe- Indoor Stadium & Sports
Sports Complex
Sports & Recreation gional Sports Stadium: 1 per Complex: 1 per 50,000 DU or 1 per 1,00,000 population 8 Ha 10 Ha per 1,00,000 population
200,000 175,000
17.2ha/100,000 (can be dis- Muslim: 20ha/40,000Other:
Cemetery N/A 10 Ha per 1,00,000 population
tributed) 0.2ha/1,000

Data Source:
South Africa: CSIR Guidelines for the Provision of Social Facilities in South African Settlements First Edition: August 2012; Malaysia: Community Facilities Planning Guidelines (in Landed Residential Area), City Planning
Department of Peninsular Malaysia (2012); Singapore: HDB and URA documents; Hong Kong: pland.gov.hk/pland_en/tech_doc/hkpsg/full/ch3/ch3_tbl_4.htm; India: URDPFI Guidelines 2014
 8.4 PROPOSED PUBLIC FACILITY STANDARDS
City Level Facilities (Population: 25,00,000)
138 Community Facilities Proposal- Quantitative Guidelines Area Proposal- Location
District/Regional Centre 1 per 5,00,000 people 40.0 Ha Regional Centres ad CBD
Commercial Facilities
Local Whole Sale Markets/ Mandis 1 per 10,00,000 people 10.0 Ha Located Close to Regional Centres

Technical Education Centre (A) + Polytechnic 1 per 10,00,000 people 4.0 Ha Located near regional Centre

Technical Education Centre (B) + Technical Centre + Coaching Centre / Professional Institution 1 per 10,00,000 people 4.0 Ha Located near regional Centre

Educational Facilities Engineering College 1 per 10,00,000 people 6.00 Ha Located in University Town

Medical college 1 per 10,00,000 people 15.00 Ha Located in University Town

Other Professional College 1 per 10,00,000 people 6.00 Ha Located in University Town
University Campus - 10.0 60.0 Ha Located in University Town
General Hospital 6.00 Ha Located within 9 city centres and health city
Health & Medical
Central Library 15000 0.2 Ha In the CBD
District Station: 1 per 10,00,000 4.8 Ha
District Jail: 1 per 10,00,000 10.0 Ha
Police Fronting main/arterial roads
Civic & Community Institutions Civil Defense and Home Guards: 1 per 10,00,000 people 2.0 Ha
Police Line: 1 per city 6.0 Ha
Civic Facilities 1 per 10,00,000 3 Ha
City Level Park 1 per 1 mil (~10ha) ~10ha
Parks & Open Space
Botanic Garden 1 per city 10~20 Ha
Located close to Regional Centres/Transit
Divisional Sports Centre 1 per 10,00,000 20 Ha
Station
City Square 1 per 5,00,000 population 8 Ha Inside the regional centre
Performance Centre / Cultural centre/ exhibition fairground 1 per 5,00,000 population 15 Ha In the CBD
Sports & Recreation Art / City Gallery 1 per 5,00,000 population In the CBD
Convention Centre 1 per 5,00,000 population as per req In the CBD
Museums 1 per 5,00,000 population In the CBD
Science Museum and Planetarium / Observatory 1 per 5,00,000 population In the CBD
Zoo 100 Ha Islands
Gas Included in the primary green
Utility Services Communication 12,000,000 4.2 Ha
Burial Ground/ Crematorium --- 8Ha
MRT Station 1 per town centre Every town centre
Transport Bus depots 10 Ha Regional centres, 4 ha for 9 cities 10 Ha 1 per city
MRT Depots 1 per MRT line 30 Ha per line

Data Source:
Note: Based on URDPFI Guidelines and Case studies from Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa

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 Town Level Facilities (Population: 60,000- 1,00,000)
Community Facilities Proposal- Quantitative Guidelines Area Proposal- Location
Commercial Facilities Town Centre 1 per 1,00,000 people 5.0 Ha Along minor arterial/public transport corridors 139
Junior College 1 per 1,00,000 people 6 Ha Located near Town Centre
Educational Facilities
School for Physically challenged 1 per 1,00,000 people 1.5 Ha Located near Town Centre/Town Park
Polyclinic Polyclinic: 1 per 1,00,000 Centrally located
Nursing Home, Child Welfare and Maternity Centre 1 per 1,00,000 people 0.3 Ha Located close to Town Centre
Health & Medical
Intermediate Hospital Category (A & B) 1 per 1,00,000 people 4.70 Ha Located close to Town Centre
Multi specialty Hospital 1 per 1,00,000 people 6.35 Ha Located close to Town Centre
Fire Station 1 per 10,00,000 people 1 Ha
Civic & Community Institutions Fronting main/arterial roads
Police Police Station: 1 per 1,00,000 1.5 Ha
Parks & Open Space Town Park 1 per 1,00,000 (~5ha) ~5ha
District Sports Complex 1 per 1,00,000 people 8 Ha Close to Town Centre
Sports & Recreation & Culture
Religious 4 Ha
Safety Management Disaster Management Centre 1 per 2,00,000 1.0 Ha Along arterial roads

Neighborhood Level Facilities (Population: 15,000- 25,000)

Community Facilities Proposal- Quantitative Guidelines Area Proposal- Location

Commercial Facilities Local Market 1 per 15,000 people 1.0 Ha Along Collector Roads

Primary School 1 per 10-15,000 person 1.5-2ha 5-10mins walk from residential areas
Educational Facilities
Secondary School 1 per 25,000 person 3ha 10-20mins walk, may co-locate with PS (~5ha)

Health & Medical Health centre/ clinics/ Dispensary 1 per neighbourhood 0.015-0.020 Ha Located within the Neighbourhood Centre

Local markets 1 per 15,000 people Within neighbourhood centre

Social
Community Centre 1 per 15,000 (0.5ha) people Within neighbourhood centre

Parks & Open Space Neighbourhood Park 1 per 3-15,000 1-1.5ha

Temples 1 per 25,000 1 Ha Near neighbourhood centre

Places of Worship
Others 1 per 25,000 1 Ha Near neighbourhood centre

Data Source:
Note: Based on URDPFI Guidelines and Case studies from Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa
 8.5 COMMERCIAL
FACILITIES
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Commercial hubs and facilities act
as vibrant polarisers structuring the
urban fabric and providing the city with
abundant jobs and economic drivers.

As discussed in the previous chapters,

Central Business District an iconic central business district
is planned along the river Krishna
waterfront. The CBD straddles between
the government and the finance city,
creating a bustling city centre with
opportunities for activities by the
waterfront. While the main CBD is
concentrated North of the capital city, 3
other well distributed regional centres
help in decentralizing commercial
developments across the city. Covering
Regional Centre about 40Ha of commercial space these
regional centres serve a population
catchment of 5,00,000 people each.
Other commercial provisions include
whole sale markets in proximity to
each of the regional centres. These
markets covering a land area of 10 Ha
serve10,00,000 people.

Additionally, to provide local and town

Fig.8.1Commercial Facilities Plan level commercial facilities, town and
Neighbourhood Centre neighbourhood centres with 5Ha per

3
Regional
22
Town
53
Neighbourhood
3
Wholesale
1,00,000 people and 1Ha per 15,000
- 25,000 people have been planned
within each town respectively. These
Centres Centres Centres Markets smaller centres act as nodal points with
a 0.25 km2 catchment area to ensure
ease of access/arrival and walkability,
Commercial
serving as focus points for each
19 % Other Public Facilities
neighbourhood in each city.

Wholesale Market

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8.6 EDUCATIONAL
FACILITIES
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As one of the main social and economic
development factors, education and
quality education infrastructure will
drive the city to excellence, providing
its population with numerous
opportunities.
University
In addition to the Knowledge city,
three tiers of educational facilities in
the capital city will support a robust
educational industry; City level, Town
level, and neighbourhood level. City
level educational facilities include
multi-disciplinary national universities,
with 290Ha of land allocated to
accommodate state level colleges and
university campuses. These major
educational hubs will be located in Junior College
the Knowledge city, supported by the
surrounding town and neighbourhood
level facilities. Special land has also
been allocated for technical institutions
covering a land area of 4 Ha to
support a population catchment of
1,00,00,000 people in close proximity
to each of the regional centres. These
institutions can focus on the types of
industries promoted in the Capital city. Fig.8.2Educational Facilities Plan
At the township level, smaller scale Special School
institutes will fulfill community needs
for education, located within walking
distance for users. These smaller
scale facilities include primary schools
320 ha
University & Institution
308
Primary
81
Secondary
21
Junior
(0.4 Ha; 1 per precinct), secondary Schools Schools Colleges
schools 3 Ha; 1 per 25,000 population), Education
special schools (1.5 Ha; 1 per 1,00,000
population), and junior colleges (6 Ha; 13 % Other Public Facilities
1 per 1,00,000 population).

Primary School
 8.7 HEALTH FACILITIES
At the state and city level, Amaravati
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will provide large specialized facilities
such as multi-disciplinary hospitals
(6.35Ha per 1,00,000 people ) to cater
to the larger region. Although there is a
city specialized in Health, each regional
centre will still have a general hospital
Hospital (6Ha per RC) to provide for and meet
the needs of its people. The Health
city will house more health facilities
and hospitals as compared to other
cities. These would include a large
health cluster encompassing medical
colleges, multi disciplinary health
centres, trauma centres and hazardous
diseases institute to provide Amaravati
with critical care facilities within the
city boundaries. These critical facilities
Town level health facilities will be serve through high speed rail
making the health city easily accessible
to the people of the Capital Region.

The other cities will mainly be supported

by town level health facilities such as
small hospitals (4.7Ha per 1,00,000
people) , poly clinics (1 per 1,00,000
people), and nursing homes, child
welfare and maternity centres (0.3Ha
Fig.8.3Health Facilities Plan per 1,00,000 people) located in close
Pharmacy proximity to the town centres. Other
facilities present at neighbourhood

67 ha
Hospitals
186 ha
Town Level
1
Health Centre
level will include health centres, clinics,
dispensaries (0.015-0.020 Ha per
neighbourhood). The distribution of
Health Facilities per Neighbourhood these facilities will ensure that good
healthcare is accessible to all, helmed
Health
by the major hospitals and bolstered
3% Other Public Facilities
by smaller facilities in the towns and
neighbourhoods to serve the daily
community needs.
Neighbourhood level health facilities

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8.8 CIVIC FACILITIES
As administrative capital of the region, 143
Amaravati will house major civic
facilities, thus infusing an image of
grandeur and oppulence.

It will house important government

offices, public institutions and larger
civic infrastructures (as high court, Government Assembly
legislative assembly and the secretariat)
in the government and justice cities.
In addition to governmental and
administration infrastructure, other
city level social infrastructures will also
be included in the capital city such as
science centres within the knowledge
city, convention halls in the central
business district.

Amaravati will also coin a unique Police station

image and character by enhancing
its inherent culture and by providing
its people with cultural centres and
places of expression. Capitalising on
arts and traditions, but also history and
heritage, the city will notably develop
attractive tourism attractions, in the
tourism city in proximity to the historic
Undavalli Caves.
Fig.8.4Civic Facilities Plan
In addition, each regional centre will Fire Station
encompass civil facilities such as police
line (6Ha per city), police stations
(4.8Ha per 10,00,000), jails (10Ha per
10,00,000), civil defence and home
guards (2Ha per 10,00,000), and fire
269 ha
Government Offices
35 ha
Security Facilities
38 ha
Fire & Disaster
73 ha
Cultural Facilities
stations (1Ha per 10,00,000). These Civic Management
will be supported by town level civic
facilities such town offices and police 7% Other Public Facilities
stations.

Museum
 8.9 RELIGIOUS FACILITIES
India is a very eclectic and diversified
144
nation with various ethnic groups,
traditions, practices and religions.
Rituals, worship, and other religious
activities are prominent in daily life
and the urban fabric needs to embrace
this characteristic to satisfy needs for
places of worship, in addition with
convenience, practicality and variety.
The peoples capital of Andhra Pradesh
thus needs to provide its inhabitants
with an equal variety of religious
centres and places of worship.
Each neighbourhood will be equipped
with adequate religious facilities; the
number and size of these religious
institutions will be based on the
religious/ethnic distribution of each
town.
Religious facilities have been provided
at the neighbourhood level, with
approximately four of such facilities
in each town (1Ha per facility). The
provision of this widespread small-scale
facility is to ensure that the people are
able to easily access these facilities on
a daily basis. Responding to the service
population as a key element in the
planning of these facilities, these places
of worship will also be purposefully
located within walking distance to the
community they serve.

Fig.8.5Religious Facilities Plan

Hindu Temple Church

155 ha
Religion
1
site per neighbourhood
1 ha
per site

Religion
2% Other Public Facilities

Mosque Sikh Temple

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8.10 RECREATIONAL
FACILITIES
Sports and recreation facilities, city
parks, are key elements in the urban
mesh and daily activities, able to infuse
vibrancy and pleasant living within the
city landscape.
Recreational facilities are provided at
all the different levels and encompass
different forms of recreation. At city
and state level, larger scale sports
stadiums (20Ha per 1,000,000 people)
for regional and international events/
uses are located at the waterfront
area of the sports city, supported by
regional level sports and recreation
facilities as well as central parks (10Ha
per 1,000,000 people).
Stadium
Theme park
These regional recreational facilities are
large enough to host city level events
such as concerts, fairgrounds (etc). 145
Most sports facilities are located in
close proximity to the water bodies and
parks of the capital city, creating spaces
of relief through green and blue views.
Theme parks and golf courses are located
on the nearby offshore islands, creating
an opportunity for escape/retreat over
the weekends that are still close to the
city. In addition to the rich green and
blue system, centrally located town
(5Ha per 100,000) and neighbourhood
parks (1.5Ha per 3-15,000), and town
sports facilities (8Ha per 100,000) are
present to maximize accessibility to the
population.
Fig.8.6Recreational Facilities Plan
Golf course
97 ha
Sport City
235 ha
Sports & Recreation
229 ha
Golf courses
& Theme parks
Sports & Recreation
55 % Other Public Facilities
City Park
 8.11 CREMATION & located along the river in accordance
BURIAL FACILITIES with the religious beliefs and rites of
funerals. Electronic cremations (2Ha
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Funeral rites require various and per town) are located at the edge of
distinct facilities in order to match the towns near open spaces or within the
different ways of life and beliefs in the clean industrial areas, while burial
city. grounds (3Ha per city) are located close
to cremation grounds in open spaces.
Cremation and burial facilities such as
cremation grounds, electric cremation
and cemeteries will be included, in
accordance with the regulations for the
population catchment, town and city
level facilities.

These facilities have been located away

from the residential population, near
clean industries and parks in order to
reduce the impact of this disamenity.
Cremation grounds (2Ha per city) are

Fig.8.7Religious Facilities Plan

Cremation ground Electric cremation facilities

28 ha
Burial Grounds
19 ha
Cremation Grounds
52 ha
Electric Crematorium

Cremation & Burial

1% Other Public Facilities

Cemetery Cemetery

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