Guntur: There will be no major change in the final master plan for Amaravati capital city. The objections raised by pooled farmers and residents of the capital region villages would be overruled.
The Singaporean planners are busy giving final touches to the final master plan, and changes will be to the bare minimum. The final master plan will be released on February 15.
Sources said Sunday that as per the wishes of the government, the demand for rerouting of the straight Amaravati Express Highway and the arterial roads in the capital region villages would be brushed aside. However, suggestions of the pooled farmers like allotting reconstituted plots in the height areas and allowing multiple floors will be considered.
The team from Surbana -Jurong International conducted review meetings with CRDA officials at Tullur and Vijayawada last week and reviewed the objections and suggestions. CRDA sources said having straight road is most important for the swift development of the new capital. To attend to the house removal complaints, CRDA might offer substantial compensation of two to three times extra money to the affected people, based on the market value, or give them plots of good commercial value under a package to house owners.
Minister and CRDA vi-ce-chairman P. Nara-ya-na, Tadikonda MLA of Telugu Desam T. Sravan Kumar, TD local leaders and CRDA officials are conducting meeting in the villages to pacify the locals.
CRDA sources said ot-her demands like continuation of burial grounds, common utilities, religious places, water tanks, schools, social structures, hospitals, cattle and milk centres and no-user charges are under consideration. Slight changes would be made in the final capital city master plan.
Residents of Penumaka and Undavalli, G. Naresh Reddy and others, lamented that CRDA ignored their main objections. The government had already snatched away their livelihood by acquiring multi-crop fertile lands and now trying to throw them out of their homes.
Farmers girding loins to fight CRDA plan
The public and pooled farmers of Amaravati capital region are waiting for release of the Amaravati capital city’s final master plan, to approach courts against the CRDA proposals to lay roads between residential areas.
A majority of farmers of the Penumaka and Undavalli in the Capital Region had refused to offer their multi-crop unique fertile land to CRDA under LPS or Land Acquisition Act, went to court and got orders to continue cultivation. Following this example, the pooled farmers whose houses would be removed are planning to approach courts seeking justice.
The residents of Krishnayapalem and other villages, K. Anil, G. Ramulu and others, said they had submitted objections against stra-ight roads and other “objectionable” proposals and would wait till the release of final capital city master plan.
If the CRDA insists on having straight roads in the final master plan, against the wishes of the pooled farmers, they would haul the CRDA and the government before courts, seeking justice.
