Guntur: Farmers plan to approach the Court over the CRDA modifying Undavalli and Penumaka from residential lands to passive ones with subsequent decision taken to locate the Amaravati Recreation Zone there.
The farmers of the two villages did not offer their lands to CRDA for new capital Amaravati establishment under Land Pooling Scheme (LPS) and had continued cultivating it. They now allege that the government and CRDA are turning residential areas into passive zones to snatch their valuable lands for recreation purposes.
They said that this was retaliation by the CRDA for their earlier refusal to hand over their lands under LPS or land acquisition.
Capital Farmers Association leader, G. Naresh Reddy said that earlier in the final Amaravati Master Plan a pond was proposed to store the water of Kondaveeti Vagu at Krishnayapalem but now it has been shifted to Penumaka that too in the lands of farmers who refused lands to the CRDA.
He alleged that besides water tanks, lands of anti LPS farmers were marked for passive zone without their consent being taken to give the land to private companies to start recreation centres.
Mr Naresh and other farmers questioned how the CRDA can alter their lands from residential zone to passive, without their consent. They demanded immediate cancellation of the order. The angry farmers said that the Krishna river is only two kilometres away from Penumaka. Ground water and Krishna river water is easily available. They said that they are continuing cultivation with help of Court orders.
