Administration should be centralised and development

Disfavouring Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy's plan to have "three capitals" for Andhra Pradesh, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said administration should remain centralised while development should be decentralised.

The state Secretariat, High Court and Legislature should all be in one place, the Vice-President asserted, adding it was for the state government to decide where it should be.

"I am telling this with my 42 years of (political) experience. Don't see this from a political or controversial viewpoint," Venkaiah Naidu said, in an informal chat with media at his family-run Swarna Bharat Trust at Atukuru near here.

Last week, the Chief Minister hinted that the state could have three capitals, like in South Africa, with the executive capital in Visakhapatnam, legislative capital in Amaravati and judiciary capital in Kurnool.

Three days later, a committee of experts appointed by the state government too came out with recommendations on similar ...