Adilabad: The valuable agriculture lands are going into the hands of the feudal lords in and around Nirmal and Mancherial towns in the wake of the creation of new districts. These agriculture lands will be converted into plots or to be used for the construction of apartments.
The landlords and political leaders have been purchasing hundreds of acres of lands since Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced the creation of Nirmal, Mancherial a few days ago and now Asifabad district.
Land transactions in crores of rupees took place in Mancherial and Nirmal towns and subsequently land registrations and this was quite visible.
According to reports, land transactions picked up in and around Asifabad town and local businessmen and political leaders were busy in purchasing lands since Asifabad was announced a new district.
Businessmen are targeting the distressed farmers eyeing their lands and purchasing them by offering some hiked prices. Political leaders purchased agriculture lands for future purposes in Mamada, Laxmanchanda, Dilawarpur, Khanapur, Sarangapur, Neredigonda mandals which share borders with Nirmal town.
Same is the case with the Mancherial district. The land transaction is high in Jaipur, Luxettipet and Mandamarri mandals sharing borders with the Mancherial town. Land value rose abnormally in Jaipur mandal with establishment of the Singreni thermal power project.
If one goes by the records of landholdings, even today, the traditional landlord communities were dominant in and around Mancherial and Nirmal areas and own big tracts of agriculture lands and invested in real estate ventures on the outskirts of these towns.
Traditional feudal communities are strong politically and economically and now they are getting strengthened with the real estate boom created by the new districts.
These feudal forces have been controlling the sand mining and timber smuggling for a long time in Adilabad district.
The feudal communities have faced a setback with the increased Naxal activities in Adilabad district till 2004 when the then Congress government led by late Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy held talks with the Naxalites in the United Andhra Pradesh.
