While the Andhra Pradesh government’s efforts to build a new capital city, Amaravati, is in national focus, a government scheme to preserve the heritage of a nearby village with a rich history is floundering. Amravathi, the imagined heartland of the Andhra people that the new capital seeks to represent, has received little benefit from the Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana, which has been plagued by failures in capacity-building and community engagement.
