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State likely to bear extra costs for land
The state government may have to bear additional burden to acquire land for Amaravati-Anantapur greenfield expressway as the farmers were expecting more compensation than being offered by it. District collectors are waiting for the directions of the government on the issue as the R&B department has requested the government for land acquisition notification.
Amaravati: The state government may have to bear additional burden to acquire land for Amaravati-Anantapur greenfield expressway as the farmers were expecting more compensation than being offered by it. District collectors are waiting for the directions of the government on the issue as the R&B department has requested the government for land acquisition notification.
in a recent meeting, collector of Prakasam district told Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu that farmers were expecting more compensation than the government was considering to offer to acquire their lands for the highway. Some other collectors too expressed similar opinions before the Chief Minister.
When the Chief Minister suggested that the collectors implement the land pooling system, like in Amaravati where 33,000 acres land was pooled successfully, the collectors reportedly told him that it would not be a success in Rayalaseema districts. As per initial estimates, around Rs 2,000 crore is needed for land acquisition purpose.
Lands to the extent of 1,073.25 hectare in Anantapur, 1,008.75 Ha in Kurnool, 2,393 Ha in Prakasam and 1,844.88 Ha in Guntur districts for the project. Besides, 1,451.2 Ha of forest land in Kadapa and 992.25 Ha in Kurnool district have to be acquired. The total forest land that has to be acquired is 8,562.8 hectare.
The state government requested the Centre for financial assistance to complete the land acquisition but the response from Delhi was not encouraging. The Chief Minister directed the collectors to complete peg marking work as soon as possible and the government was determined to complete the project by 2019. He also told the officials that land acquisition has to be completed soon.
On other hand, even the peg marking and field measurements works in some districts are not completed yet though Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has set deadline for completion of Amaravati-Anantapur greenfield expressway by 2019. The work of fixing boundaries and conducting of global positioning survey for forest land diversion is also in progress.
The Chief Minister unveiled the state government’s ambitious project Amaravati-Anantapur expressway in 2016. The six-lane expressway of 598.83 km, proposed to be at an estimated cost of Rs 27,625 crore, will pass through Anantapur, Kurnool, Kadapa, Prakasam and Guntur districts.
As per information available with R&B department, peg marking was completed for 38.6 km (42.32 per cent) of the total 91.214 km in Guntur district and field measurements were completed for 22.25 km (24.39 per cent).
In Prakasam district, 85.15 per cent peg field measurements have been completed so far and peg marking is completed. In Kurnool district, 83.23 per cent of peg marking work has been completed and 66.09 per cent peg marking was completed regarding forest lands.
Officials of R&B department took the issue to the notice of the Chief Minister making request to give directions to the collectors to complete the peg marking and measurement works. The officials also said that they were waiting for land acquisition notification to speed up the project works.
The total length of road is 598.7 km and length of service roads is 368.5 km. Besides, 43 major bridges, six rail over-bridges, 22 interchanges, 28 km long tunnels have to be constructed as part of these project.
