Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh government is now getting ready to invoke the Land Acquisition Act 2013, to acquire the lands from farmers in the capital villages. Following the Hyderabad High Court’s order suspending the land acquisition notification issued last week, the government is now planning to go ahead with the Land Acquisition Act 2013.

Minister for Municipal Administration, P Narayana, who is monitoring the Amaravati plans and development, told media persons that the government would invoke the provisions of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement 2013. He said that the High Court had only objected to the AP Land Acquisition Relief and Rehabilitation Rules 2014. He discounted the claims of the YSR Congress that the High Court had ruled against land acquisition in Amaravati.

“Since the court had ruled against the land acquisition under the provisions of AP Land Acquisition Relief and Rehabilitation Rules 2014, we will invoke the provisions of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement 2013. The farmers have refused to give their land in land pooling. If we invoke the 2013 Act, I am sure they will come forward and that would end all the problems in land acquisition,” the Minister asserted.
Having taken more than 33,000 acres of land from farmers in pooling for the new capital, the government had issued notification for a few hundreds of acres of land in Penumaka, Undavalli and Bethapudi villages. The capital project could be completed only if these lands are taken from the farmers as they are located at the entry of the capital. The prestigious six lane seed access road too was started from Venkatapalem as the lands from Undavalli and Penumaka are not given to the government yet.
Once the government invokes the provisions of the 2013 Land Acquisition Act then Amaravati project would go smooth, the Minister asserted.