World Bank decides not to fund project to build AP's new capital Amaravati

World Bank 'drops' project after getting complaints from civil society groups that the project will displace thousands.

The World Bank will not give loans to build Andhra Pradesh's new capital city, Amaravati, after getting complaints from civil society groups that the project had displaced thousands and the government had forcibly acquired farmlands.

The multilateral lending agency on its website categorised the $ 300-million project as "dropped" after studying for months representations sent to its officials against the project. 

N Chandrababu Naidu, when he was chief minister of the state, had sought funding for the project in 2015, but the Bank had deferred its decision in the light of the alleged government excesses.

Andhra Pradesh is now governed by