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The Andhra Pradesh government, astatine its caller Cabinet meeting, has decided to licence the leasing of assigned lands to the renewable vigor (RE) companies, aiming to make dependable income opportunities for the mediocre farmers.
The move, which is simply a portion of the conjugation government’s broader gross reforms, is expected to assistance tiny and marginal farmers unafraid a unchangeable livelihood, portion contributing to the maturation of cleanable vigor successful the State.
According to authoritative data, Andhra Pradesh has 36.36 lakh acres of assigned land. Of this, 13.62 lakh acres are eligible for freehold status, portion 9.93 lakh acres person already been converted.
Under the caller policy, astir 26.43 lakh acres tin beryllium leased exclusively to the Renewable Energy companies engaged successful solar, wind, compressed biogas (CBG), and pumped retention projects.
The lease process volition beryllium carried retired done the New and Renewable Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (NREDCAP), oregon the soon-to-be-established Rural Development Board.
The authorities has already identified suitable areas for mounting up RE plants, ensuring that these projects are developed lone successful the designated zones.
Companies volition beryllium allowed to get authorities lands successful specified regions, portion backstage oregon assigned lands tin beryllium taken connected lease.
Steady income
Farmers who lease their lands to the RE projects volition gain betwixt ₹30,000 and ₹40,000 per acre annually, with a 5% summation successful each 2 years.
In addition, unemployed members of the husbandman families volition beryllium fixed precedence successful jobs successful these companies and upcoming factories.
“The determination has been taken with an volition to bring tangible benefits to the poor,” Revenue, Registration and Stamps Minister Anagani Satya Prasad told The Hindu.
“Allowing assigned lands to beryllium leased for RE projects is portion of our larger betterment to fortify the gross strategy and uplift the poor. The determination volition guarantee unchangeable income for tiny and marginal farmers portion making Andhra Pradesh a hub for RE. It volition besides assistance supply employment to the younker from these families, contributing to our imaginativeness of a poverty-free State,” the Minister said.
