Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao plans to take a leaf from the successful land pooling formula employed by the previous Maharashtra government in Pune and Baramati that helped accelerate IT and other industries besides big townships in that state.
The CM has decided to send a team of party leaders, including K. Kesava Rao and others, to Pune and Baramati, represented by Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar to study land pooling success story there.
“KCR said that Pune and Baramati have made rapid strides in IT and other industries due to land pooling. Farmers there voluntarily gave up their lands for development and were made stakeholders in the project. He also referred to the key role played by Sharad Pawar in it. It was win-win situation for both investors and local farmers,” TRS MLC B. Venkatesarulu, told this newspaper.
“The visit may take place after Dasara,” he added.
The CM made the proposal during an interaction with party leaders from various districts. The TRS had earned the wrath of farmers, Opposition and social activists over forcible land acquisition for Mallannasagar project. Congress took the issue to the President and demanded compensation as per Land Acquisition act of 2013.
Pawar played a key role in the development of Baramati, Magarpatta City in Pune, Lavasa city and other projects. Magarpatta Township Development and Construction Company constructed a new city in Hadapsar village on 600 acres in 1990s with 430 acres of infrastructure, 9,000 apartments, 60 lakh square feet of IT space, commercial zone, residential neighbourhoods, hospitals, shopping mall, food court, schools, parks etc.
Satish Magar, the brain behind the project got support from Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena Chief Balasaheb Thackeray and others. In all 800 beneficiary farmers owning over 400 acres became shareholders in the company.
Sharad Pawar turned his remote agriculture based village into a vibrant city with several industries including steel processing, Piaggio two-wheeler plant, industrial area, educational hub, sugar factories etc.
