Farmers offer 33,000 acre land for Andhra capital at Amravati

Farmers have "voluntarily offered" about 90 per cent of the 38,581 acre land required for Andhra Pradesh's new capital at Amravati under the pooling system, a state government official said.

The central government think tank NITI Aayog has lauded the 'land pooling' method as a "model to the nation" in land acquisition.

"Farmers have voluntarily offered 32,637.48 acre (89 per cent) of the targeted 38,581.15 acres of land for the new capital. The work is in full swing," T Srinivasa Rao, OSD to CM (Media Advisor) told

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