AMARAVATI

About:

• In a significant observation, the High Court held that the State legislature lacked the competence to make any legislation for shifting, bifurcating or trifurcating the capital.
  
  
• A three-judge Bench gave the final verdict after hearings in a case relating to a bunch of writ petitions filed by landowners of Amaravati to declare that the State government had no legislative competence to change the capital or remove Amaravati from being the capital of the three civic wings — legislature, executive and judiciary — of the State.
  
  

Key facts

• Amaravati is the capital of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
  
  
• It is located on the banks of river Krishna in Guntur District.
  
  
• Amaravati formerly known as ''Dhānyakatakam'' was an important Buddhist holy learning site.
  
  
• Its history dates back to 2nd Century BCE when it was the capital of the Satavahana Dynasty of the (Andhras), one of the earliest Indian empires and the ancestral dynasty of Andhra Pradesh.