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The Andhra Pradesh authorities has approved the transportation of 9.96 acres of authorities onshore successful Nuzvid municipality and mandal successful Eluru territory to the Director of the Horticulture & Sericulture Department for the constitution of the Indian Institute of Plantation Management (IIPM). The authorities issued a G.O. successful this respect connected December 31, 2025.
Special Chief Secretary G. Sai Prasad, successful the G.O., said that the onshore is to beryllium leased for 33 years connected a free-of-cost basis. The lease volition transportation the ‘usual conditions’ nether the State’s onshore argumentation (BSO‑24) and different laid down rules.
Referring to the Eluru District Collector’s letter, Mr. Sai Prasad stated that the Collector had primitively projected allotting the onshore connected a paid lease. In the missive dated August 23, 2025, helium recommended leasing the 9.96-acre tract to the IIPM astatine a complaint of 10% of ₹1.37 crore per twelvemonth (approximately ₹3.7 lakh annually), with a 10% rent hike each 5 years.
Meanwhile, the IIPM’s Director (based successful Bengaluru) wrote to the authorities connected December 2, 2025, requesting a rent waiver. The missive appealed that the 9.96-acre tract beryllium allotted escaped of cost, oregon failing that astatine a token rent ‘as a peculiar lawsuit successful nationalist interest’. Citing this plea and the stated nationalist interest, the authorities agreed to waive the rent entirely.
The authorities imposed respective conditions accompanying the allotment. The authorities specified that the onshore indispensable beryllium utilized lone for the intended intent (plantation absorption education) and cannot beryllium sub‑leased oregon transferred to immoderate different party, without explicit authorities approval.
The existing roads connected the onshore are to stay undisturbed, and immoderate environmentally delicate features (such arsenic h2o bodies) indispensable beryllium preserved successful their earthy state. The bid besides requires that the IIPM commence usage of the tract wrong 3 years; nonaccomplishment to bash so, oregon immoderate usurpation of the terms, empowers the District Collector to cancel the lease and resume the land.
The goverment besides emphasised strict safeguards for h2o bodies: they are “not recommended for alienation”, and nary operation oregon alteration is allowed connected oregon implicit them.
