Amaravati cracks into pieces

Amaravati: Cracks and breaks started to the Amaravati capital area, as the state government started disintegrating the villages from it and merging with the Tadepalli Municipality.

The AP government has merged 8 villages in the Tadepalli Municipality, amidst the protests from Amaravati farmers and opposition from the political parties.

The villages including Prathuru, Vaddeswaram, Penumaka, Ippatam, Mellempudi, Chirravuru, Gundemeda and Undavalli were merged into the limits of Tadepalli Municipality. Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Department have denotified the villages from the Panchayat Raj.

Penumaka and Undavalli are the two villages under the capital city Amaravati core area. Apart from that the state government notified and taken land from the farmers from these two villages under the Land Pooling Scheme too. Interestingly, the former CM and TDP supremo's rented house on the Undavalli Karakatta would also fall in the Tadepalli Municipal limits with this makeshift decision of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's government.

J Syamala Rao, Secretary, Municipal Administration and Urban Development issued the GO MS No 97, on Thursday with this effect.

As the two villages disintegrated from the core Amaravati, it would not be possible to implement the already prepared plans for megacity.

In that GO, he said that after taking consent from all these local bodies, the government merged them into the municipality.