If YSR Congress party government headed by chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has its way, Amaravati capital project is more or less shelved, as it would be confined only to winter session of the assembly and Governor’s bungalow.
The committee also recommended that the development of Amaravati, if at all it can be done, should be moved towards Mangalagiri.
It would be mean, the present capital region where the farmers had given away 34,000 acres of land would lose its relevance.
So, what would the government do with the lands acquired from the farmers under land pooling by the previous Chandrababu Naidu government?
Well, according to minister for panchayat raj Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy, the government will return the lands acquired from the farmers back to them.
Already, the government has cancelled the registration of assigned lands taken over from poor farmers for the capital region. They would be handed over back to the same farmers. Similarly, those lands which still remain barren without development will be given back to the farmers.
In case of the lands which have already been developed for construction of secretariat, roads, high court complex, MLA quarters and IAS officers’ quarters and judges’ quarters etc, the government might provide alternative pieces of lands or plots to the farmers.
Though urban development minister Botsa Satyanarayana said the land acquired for Amaravati would be developed into plots and given to farmers, they are not ready to accept the same as there is no way the area would be developed if the capital shifted. So, they would not get back their money.
So, it would be better, they get back their agriculture lands, so that they can at least take up cultivation again. But nobody knows what the fate of the lands which changed hands would be.
