Amaravati impresses Singaporean students

Amaravati: Watching Amaravati emerge as a global city is a good learning opportunity, observed a delegation of 15 Singaporean students, who are here in Andhra Pradesh as part of a Student Immersion Programme organised by Catholic Junior College (CJC) and the Amaravati Partnership Office (APO) of Singapore.

Singapore students Paca Angelie, Marie Galang, Callista Shannon Lam and Marcus Lee Mun Seng and others said that they have seen a lot of opportunities for the new generation in the capital city Amaravati.

Seng, a Junior College (equal to First year Intermediate in Andhra Pradesh) student of Singapore’s CJC, observed that they saw overall applications of geography and economics and went through the Amaravati project details. They got to study some unique features of the city.

Stating that, everything they had learnt in Singapore about Amaravati was theory, Seng said that after coming here, learning how a new city is emerging was a really good experience. He said that, now they could compare what they had learnt in Singapore and what was the reality on the ground, he said.

Further, the students said that after visiting Amaravati, the entire perspective of the India changed a lot. They opined that there was a perception that India was a backward country, but there were plenty of opportunities here. The country could emerge as industrial power house to the world.

Galang said that they visited N St Mathew’s School and attended English and Physics lessons. The students observed that though they found little difficult to understand the Indian accent of English, it was a nice experience. She informed that NSM students gave choir and classical dance performances. 

She said that students from both schools were given the opportunity to break into smaller groups for deep-dive dialogues, where we could discuss issues at length and forge new friendships.

The Singaporean students opined that the practical learning and deep immersion into the subject will help a student a lot. Seng said that the entrepreneurship skills of people in the state are very good. We had learnt how to start a small business, quoting an example of a restaurant that they had visited in Amaravati city.

Shannon Lam informed that, they had lot of study on how Amaravati city is being structured, how its culture and traditions of Indian society are being blended in designing the concept for the capital city.

“To understand Amaravati, we have to look at the concept in different angles,” she said. Shift of Indian Policy from Look East to Act East has been helping in strengthening bonds between Singapore and India, they observed.