In an anticlimax to the ongoing agitation against the proposed construction of Mallannasagar, farmers of Etigaddakishtapur in Toguta mandal of Meadk district, started registering their lands.
It was claimed that they came forward voluntarily to surrender their lands to the Government under G.O. 123 and accept the compensation which was offered by it. According to sources 19 farmers went to Toguta to register their lands to the Mandal Revenue Officer on Monday.
Farmers relent
“We have to acquire 2,500 acres from Etigaddakishtapur out of which only 1,600 acres is patta land and the remaining is government and forest land. So far about 650 acres land was registered by farmers under G.O. 123 and another 300 acres was promised on Sunday and Monday. We are hopeful that we can acquire lands in that village in the next one week or 10 days,” said Toguta MRO Deshya.
In all 67 acres was registered by 34 farmers in the last two days.
He said that notification would be issued under G.O. No.123 for land acquisition in Vemulaghat and Pallepahad as farmers were coming forward to surrender land under the G.O.
The officer informed that the administration had decided to increase the land price from Rs.5.85 lakh to Rs.6 lakh as per the request made by farmers and they were waiting for orders from the Government.
“We will extend the same amount to farmers who had already surrendered the lands to the Government under G.O. 123,” explained the official. In a related development, the activists of Mallannasagar Porata Samithi have demanded the Government to regularise Sada Binamis and then register the lands.
“It was not right on the part of the Government to register sada binamis without regularising them,” said G. Jayaraj and G. Bhaskar of Porata Samithi.
Meet Harish Rao
In one more development, some of the land oustees from Etigaddakishtapur went to Siddipet and met Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao expressing their willingness to hand over land as per G.O. 123. “About 800 acres out of the total 1,600 acres land of Etigaddakishtapur was registered. The majority of farmers in remaining lands are not ready to continue their struggle.
“The Government is winning the fight and farmer getting defeated,” said a resident of this village on condition of anonymity.
The Government is winning the fight and farmers are getting defeated, says a farmer from the village
