Quest to build city of the future


Construction being carried out in Amravati. — Priyadarshini Ravichandran/The New York Times

IN one corner of the vast construction site, engineers are rerouting water into canals that will spread like arteries around the new urban space.

In another, workers in hard hats are pouring concrete for a state-of-the-art building that will soon host India’s largest quantum computer – part of a broader project labelled “The Quantum Valley”.

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