The Union government is likely to introduce the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2026, in the current Lok Sabha session to officially recognise Amaravati as the sole capital of Andhra Pradesh.
Senior sources in the government said the move follows a resolution passed by the Andhra Pradesh Assembly on March 28, 2026, urging the Centre to amend the law to incorporate Amaravati as the State’s capital. Copies of the Bill have been circulated among MPs.
The Bill proposes to amend Section 5 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, which had originally designated Hyderabad as the common capital for both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for a period not exceeding 10 years.
The move comes after a long process of settling a capital city for Andhra Pradesh after the bifurcation of the erstwhile State in 2014 into Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. At that time, the Union government had set up a committee of experts, as mandated under Section 6 of the Act, to explore the question of a new capital. The members of that committee included K. C. Siva Ramakrishnan, then chairperson of the governing board of the Centre for Policy Research, Rathin Roy, then director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Aromar Revi, then director of Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Jagan Shah, then director National Institute of Urban Affairs, and K. T. Ravindran, former dean of the School of Planning and Architecture.
