Polavaram: Andhra Pradesh told to respond

Hyderabad: Justice Vilas V. Afzulpurkar of the Hyderabad High Court granted four weeks to the AP government to respond on a plea of farmers from West Godavari district who were displaced under the Indira Sagar (Polavaram) Project.


As many as 165 farmers of the district, who were displaced under the project, had moved court, seeking to declare the action of the authorities not paying them compensation on par with the other farmers under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, as illegal.