{"id":89377,"date":"2019-12-29T16:16:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T10:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12610"},"modified":"2019-12-29T16:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T10:46:37","slug":"explainedhow-andhras-concept-of-three-capitals-is-inspired-by-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explainedhow-andhras-concept-of-three-capitals-is-inspired-by-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained:How Andhra\u2019s concept of three capitals is inspired by South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Andhra Pradesh cabinet has deferred taking a decision on relocating the state capital to three separate locations.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the decision on state capital:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister had announced that Andhra Pradesh could have three decentralised capitals on the lines of South Africa.<\/li><li>The new capital being developed at Amaravati could become the Legislative Capital.The port city Visakhapatnam as the Executive Capital and Kurnool as the Judicial Capital.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About South Africa Model:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In South Africa,there are three cities that serve as the capitals of the country\u2013 Pretoria (executive), Cape Town (legislative) and Bloemfontein (judicial).<\/li><li>This arrangement was a result of the Second Boer War (1899-1902) in which Britain annexed the two Afrikaner speaking states -\u2013 the Orange Free State and the South African Republic (also called Transvaal Republic).<\/li><li>The Cape of Good Hope then remained in the British Empire, becoming self-governing in 1872 and uniting with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa in 1910.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other examples of multiple capital cities:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In Sri Lanka,Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the official capital and seat of national legislature while Colombo is the de facto seat of national executive and judicial bodies.<\/li><li>Malaysia has its official and royal capital and seat of national legislature at Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya is the administrative centre and seat of national judiciary.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Among Indian States:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Among Indian states, Maharashtra has two capitals namely Mumbai and Nagpur (which holds the winter session of the state assembly).&nbsp;<\/li><li>Himachal Pradesh has capitals at Shimla and Dharamshala (winter).The former state of Jammu &amp; Kashmir had Srinagar and Jammu (winter) as capitals.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Andhra Pradesh cabinet has deferred taking a decision on relocating the state capital to three separate locations. Facts: About the decision on state capital: The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister had announced that Andhra Pradesh could have three decentralised capitals on the lines of South Africa. The new capital being developed at Amaravati could become&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explainedhow-andhras-concept-of-three-capitals-is-inspired-by-south-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained:How Andhra\u2019s concept of three capitals is inspired by South Africa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[2641,5424],"class_list":["post-89377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-andhra-pradesh","tag-capital","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704267757},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}