Amaravati Farmers' Plots to Be Ready in 2026
Narayana said more land pooling would be done for projects such as the Inner Ring Road, the new railway station, rail track expansion and the Sports City.
Vijayawada: Infrastructure works in the residential plots allotted to capital region farmers are progressing at high speed, to be completed within a year.
This was stated on Tuesday by urban development minister P Narayana after he reviewed multiple projects in Amaravati.
He inspected the road works, development of farmers’ layouts, the pending stretches of the Seed Access Road and the steel bridge being built over the Guntur canal to link the Mangalagiri roads with the Seed Access Road.
Narayana said more land pooling would be done for projects such as the Inner Ring Road, the new railway station, rail track expansion and the Sports City.
He said plot allotment for farmers who gave their land under the land pooling system has reached the final stage. Layouts spread across 29 villages have been divided into 13 zones, where development works were under way. Following clearance of thick vegetation caused by recent rains, the basic infrastructure, drains, internal roads and civic amenities are being created rapidly.
These facilities, he said, would be ready within a year. Major road construction works would finish in another 18 months. Except for one zone, the rest are receiving major upgrades, including stormwater drains, sewerage networks, drinking water supply, STPs and bridges, which were taken up at a total cost of Rs 23,645 crore.
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is in talks with banks for loan support to farmers, he said.
On connectivity, the minister said the long-used Karakatta route would soon be redundant. “Work on the pending portions of the Seed Access Road is moving fast, and more stretches would be opened for traffic by the month-end."
The steel bridge connecting Prakasam Barrage-Undavalli Centre to the Seed Access Road would be completed by February 15, enabling direct entry into the capital without touching the embankment. This would ease road access for commuters from Vijayawada, Tadepalli and Mangalagiri, he said.
Urging farmers to complete their land registrations, the minister said 69,421 plots have been allotted to 29,233 farmers, of which 61,753 plots have been registered. Only 7,668 plots remain pending due to reasons such as non-response from 372 farmers, disputes over 1,891 plots, NRIs’ ownership of 436 plots, and 635 cases of missing documents of deceased owners.
Narayana said that among Lanka (island) land contributors, 272 plots of 147 farmers were pending. These issues would be addressed in the next Cabinet meeting.
ADCL chairperson Lakshmi Parthasarathy, CRDA engineer-in-chief Gopalakrishna Reddy and senior engineers accompanied the minister during the inspection.
