Andhra Pradesh to legalise sops for land

The Andhra Pradesh government will provide legal guarantee for fulfilling land pooling offers to benefit farmers and there ought not to be doubts on this issue, irrigation minister D. Umamaheswara Rao said.

The Cabinet sub-committee on the new capital toured Tulluru and Nelapadu villages on Sunday and interacted with farmers to persuade them to pool their land.

Mr Umamaheswara Rao said that Guntur and Vijayawada would become mega cities due to the new capital. He announced that the government would give houses to the poor of the capital villages free of cost and assured developing all villages.

Several farmers of Nelapadu gave their consent to join the land pool, giving up about 400 acre. Farmers expressed the fear that there is no act or legislation for the land pooling system. They said that besides this, the government is offering common price to prime and normal lands which is unacceptable. They demanded separate compensations to farmers according to crop variety and commercial land value. They said that they would cooperate with the government towards building the capital.
 

CM Chandrababu Naidu to meet farmers to address land issues

Agriculture minister P. Pulla Rao said that there will be a meeting between farmers and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on November 17 in Hyderabad and suggested that farmers bring their issues to the notice of Mr Naidu. He asked  farmers not to sell the-ir land in a hurry and make good use of the land pooling scheme.

Mr Pulla Rao and irrigation minister D. Umamaheswara Rao clarified various dou-bts of the farmers during an interaction.

Farmers led by village sarpanch D. Subba Rao gave consent letters to the ministers during the meeting. Earlier the ministers conducted a meeting with farmers in Tulluru where all party leaders and farmers agreed to give lands for the construction of the new capital.