Farmers ire makes AP to review capital land policy
HYDERABAD: Growing resentment from farmers belonging to the villages that were identified by the Andhra Pradesh government to procure land for construction of a new capital near Vijayawada seem to have forced the State government to re-examine the present package.
The government has decided to come out with an attractive compensatory package for the land owners. Apart from giving back 1,000 square yards of developed land per acre, allotting shops in the proposed commercial clusters to land owners as their share, doling out incentives such as waiver of registration charges and enhancing cash compensation are some of the inducements to pacify the agitating farmers.
The government has also decided to address the concerns of farm labourers, who are worried that construction of capital in the farm fields would render them jobless.
The government is planning to undertake a skill development programme for these unskilled workers to ensure they get jobs in industries, which will come up in the capital.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu held a brainstorming session with the GoM on land pooling at his residence here. Naidu is learnt to have asked them to visit the villages to convince the local farmers how land pooling would be useful to them.
News Posted: 9 November, 2014
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