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The Communist Party of India (CPI) has urged Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to supply contiguous compensation to farmers whose lands were acquired for a projected concern task successful Eluru district, oregon to instrumentality the lands without further delay.
In a missive to the Chief Minister connected Friday (December 26, 2025), CPI State caput G. Eswaraiah said that astir 340 acres were taken from farmers astatine Vatloor colony successful Pedapadu mandal for mounting up VEM Technology, an craft components manufacturing unit. Although the task was announced successful 2016 and the onshore was allotted done the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC), the portion ne'er came up and the farmers were not paid compensation. Many of them person continued cultivating the onshore for astir a decennary amid uncertainty, helium said.
Mr. Eswaraiah said that aft the YSR Congress Party came to powerfulness successful 2019, the task was stalled. In 2022, the APIIC reportedly resumed possession of the onshore from the company, but it was neither utilised nor returned to the farmers. As a result, respective farming families are facing terrible fiscal distress, peculiarly during marriages and different societal obligations.
Recalling that compensation of ₹2.5 lakh per acre was promised successful 2016, the CPI person said that circumstances had since changed. He demanded that the authorities either revise and merchandise the compensation instantly oregon instrumentality the onshore to the affected farmers to guarantee justness to the agrarian community.
