Andhra Pradesh to buy land in bits, pieces

Hyderabad/ Vijayawada: Government land available in Krishna and Guntur district are in bits and pieces and most of them are encroached. In Guntur district, 21,595 acres of land has been identified in 14 mandals of VGTM UDA area and most of them are encroached.

In Krishna district, 47,500 hectares of forest land is available. Of the total area, 30 per cent of the forest land is under encroachment. According to joint collector J. Murali,  over 16.000 acres of forest, endowment and government land is available in Nuzvid division.

In Vijayawada revenue division, which covers the city and suburbs like Kankipadu, Ibrahimpatnam and rural pockets of Nandigama, Mylavaram. Jaggaiahpet, has only 12,143 acres of all kinds of government land, that are mostly hillocks. The revenue officials are yet to finalise the overall figures of government land in the Krishna district. The DRO said that it would be finalised within two days.

The forest, revenue, endowments and Wakf land together account for 12,143 acres in Vijayawada revenue division. Most of the government land in VGTM Urban Development Authority area of Guntur district are encroached, and unfit for construction.

In Tadepally hundreds of acres of land have been either allotted to AP Tourism or maintained by department of Archeology.According to revenue authorities the situation is no different in Tullur mandal, Velagapadu and Nelapadu villages where tank Poramboku land was allotted to BPL families.

In Thullur, around 183 acres of tank Poramboku land was assigned to freedom fighters and ex-service men. Legal disputes are also bothering the administration. In Edulapalem of Prathipadu mandal, around 25 acres of land is entangled in a court case. Worse still in Phirangipuram mandal where tank land is encroached and Wakf land is a burial ground.