With barely a week to go for Chandrababu Naidu’s pooja for the construction of Amaravathi, Minister for Municipal Administration P. Narayana admitted on Thursday that securing development agreements of the Land Pooling Scheme (LPS) had not been an easy task in the case of jareebu lands.
The required agreements, in Form 9.14, have been secured for only 17,814 acres, which amount to about 50 per cent of the 33,800 acres for which land owners had given consent in Form 9.3. Annuities amounting to Rs. 68 crore have been paid to the consenting farmers, but more than 50 per cent of land owners in riverfront villages are still holding out.
Land owners have been not enthusiastic about signing on the dotted line in Form 9.14 due to apprehensions that they will not be given developed plots in their own villages. The Minister tried to allay the concerns and reiterated that land owners of riverfront villages would get developed plots within their villages.
