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In the aftermath of the State government's connection to spell for Land Pooling Scheme (LPS) 2.0 to get much onshore from farmers for operation of Amaravati, the landowners look to beryllium consenting to lend for the improvement of the superior metropolis of Andhra Pradesh, but are of the presumption that the authorities should beryllium accountable and present the promises successful a time-bound manner.
The Cabinet, successful its gathering connected November 28, 2025 (Friday), approved a connection from the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA) for taking an estimated 16,666 acres from the farmers of 7 villages, under the LPS 2.0.
The 7 villages are: Vykuntapuram, Pedamadduru, Endroyi and Karlapudi in Amaravathi mandal of Palnadu district and Vaddamanu, Harischandrapuram and Pedaparimi of Thullur mandal successful Guntur district.
Reacting to the move, a farmer, Bellamkonda Seshagiri Rao of Pedaparimi village, whose household owns astir 5 acres, said that the villagers are consenting to portion with their cultivation lands, but the APCRDA should give a better package. Their lands have precocious worth and hence they are expecting other returnable plots, both in commercial and residential categories. The lands at Pedaparimi are indispensable to physique the capital, arsenic 11 trunk roads of Amaravati are joining here. The lands are besides important for the projected Inner Ring Road, new railway line and Sports City, helium felt.
Another husbandman of the village, who did not privation to beryllium named, said, “The State authorities and APCRDA should beryllium accountable and forthcoming successful exhibiting their intentions and proposals. They person taken onshore from the farmers under the LPS 1.0 but adjacent aft a decade, the farmers are facing problems related to the returnable plots, improvement of layouts, and marking of boundaries of the returned lands too different issues. Apart from the LPS infrastructure, the authorities is besides struggling to make the city arsenic per the original master plan. The APCRDA should code these problems earlier coming to instrumentality much lands.”
Out of the full 16,666 acres proposed to beryllium acquired from the farmers under the LPS 2.0, Pedaparimi alone contributes nearly 6,000 acres.
Works apace: MLA
Reacting to the concerns of the farmers, Tadikonda MLA Tenali Sravan Kumar, who is playing a cardinal relation successful convincing the farmers for the LPS, told The Hindu that the hold successful processing the infrastructure was owed to continuous rains for the past 5 months and administrative procedures successful the initial days. As the infrastructure works are picking up gait now, the farmers volition announcement developments in the next couple of months.
'’As the farmers are present convinced that the superior is being developed arsenic expected and assured, they have come forward for participating in LPS 2.0,'’ helium Sravan Kumar said.
