Farmers contend that the roads obliterate their residential areas want the proposal taken back.
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GUNTUR: Some farmers who gave up their land under the pooling scheme have threatened to reclaim it as the Capital Region Development Authority and the state government are proposing to lay roads through their villages.
The proposed Amaravati expressway will go through Krishnayapalem, Mandadam and Ainao-valu while other arterial roads have been routed through the residential areas in Penumaka and other villages.
They contend that the roads obliterate their residential areas want the proposal taken back.
If the government does not protect these villages, they said, they would take back the pooled land.
Anxious farmers were seen looking for the maps that lay out these proposals. A majority of them in Ainavolu, which has 1,029 acres, had joined the LPS. The locals were earlier enthused by the location of the Knowledge City in their village, but the expressway proposal has cut short the joy.
Mandadam, established by the Vijayanagara king Srikrishna Devaraya, has 2,900 acres. The population of 6,500 fears for their future if a large number of residents are displaced by the expressway.
Locals of Penumaka are opposed to the arterial roads . Capital Farmers Association president G. Naresh Reddy alleged that the Penumaka farmers did not join the land pooling scheme, which is why
the Capital Region Development Authority had had proposed nearly 30 arterial roads running through the village.
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