Even as the farmers of Amaravati moved the Andhra Pradesh state high court challenging the legislation passed by the Jagan Mohan Reddy government in the assembly making changes in the capital city master plan to allot land sites to outsiders in the capital region, the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA) issued public notices on the master plan changes.
During the recent assembly session, the Jagan government amended the Amaravati master plan in order to provide houses to poor people over 900 acres of land in Amaravati and issued a gazette inviting objections and suggestions within 15 days.
When the farmers refused to take the notices, the APCRDA on Wednesday issued public notices in the media, asking the farmers to file their objections and suggestions on the changes to the master plan on November 11.
The farmers challenged the notices in the state high court and the issue is expected to come up before the bench shortly.
The Jagan government has formulated a new zone-R-5-in the capital region, which will have over 900 acres of land. They are within the boundaries of Krishnayapalem, Nidamarru, Kuragallu in Mangalagiri mandal, Manddam and Ainavolu villages in Thullur mandal.
The Amaravati JAC claimed that the TDP government had established an S-3 zone for the poor in the capital with the aim of building houses for 14,000 poor families. They said that construction of 5, 000 TIDCO houses were also completed.
Amaravati JAC steering committee member P. Sudhakar and others alleged that the state government had cheated Amaravati farmers and poor people by stopping S-3 zone. They said when the CRDA Act was amended, farmers had approached the High Court claiming that the government had committed contempt of court.
They said the YSRC government challenged the High Court verdict in support of Amaravati in the Supreme Court which would come up for hearing in the first week of November. However, the government’s new orders are in violation of the HC verdict, they said.
