Chief Minster N Chandrababu Naidu | Photo Credit: Handout
The Andhra Pradesh government is in the process of obtaining an additional 4,000 acres of land from farmers in the Amravati New Capital Project area. A senior official said, “In view of the schemes in the pipeline, the current limit of the land will not be sufficient and the process will soon start for the acquisition of about 4,000 acres of land,” a senior official said that a senior official said. business Line,
The official said N Chandrababu Naidu – NDA government came to power last year and has been more interested in its presence in Amravati region by various firms and institutions, including finalizing tenders at the beginning of the creation of new capital.
In addition, the state government has already started the process for the construction of a Greenfield International Airport in Amravati and is conducting feasibility studies. The airport alone will require about 4,000 acres of land. The Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Airport has already called for tenders for a viability study for purpose.
Land-cooling system
According to the original plan of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) government, which launched the Greenfield New Capital Project during 2014-19, 37,941 acres of land was to be acquired through land-cooling method. Of this, 34,689 acres of land was acquired by 2019 when TDP lost elections in 2019.
During 2018-24, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSRCP government stopped the land and acquisition of land, which announced the change of executive capital for Visakhapatnam, although not.
The official said, “The basic commitments given to the farmers including the allocation of development plots to the farmers in the capital region are now being met as the CRDA has already started returning the plots to the farmers who had given land in pooling. This has created a fresh interest among the farmers to offer land to the government for the capital.”
Phase II acquisition of the land will be finalized after the recently resumed construction works by the builders who won the dialects. The state government is planning to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the formal launch capital construction works again this month.
Published on 14 April 2025
