Land pooling for Amaravati put on hold

The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to put on hold the process for the pooling of around 42,226 acres of additional land for the second phase of Amaravati capital city development, following resistance from the farmers in the villages, officials familiar with the development said on Friday.

- Srinivasa Rao Apparasu

The decision was taken at the state cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on July 9. “The pooling of additional land for the capital was to be decided by the cabinet, but it was decided to keep the decision in abeyance, as some ministers expressed apprehensions over the negative fallout of the decision,” an official of the municipal administration and urban development (MAUD) department, privy