Clarifying the controversy related to assigned lands, Municipal Administration Minister P. Narayana said the Government acquired 1,270 acres of assigned land given prior to 1954 under land pooling and paid compensation to the farmers by cheque.
In another 1,262 acres of assigned land given after 1954, 360 acres were still in the possession of farmers. The remaining 919 acres had gone into the hands of others from the original allottees who had sold their lands illegally. The government was taking legal advice on how to proceed on these lands and measures would be taken to do justice for all, he said.
Mr.Narayana said that invitations to the Amaravati foundation ceremony and gifts of saris and dhotis were sent to the farmers cultivating assigned lands too but opposition parties were politicising the issue.
YSR Congress leaders were daring the government to issue a notification for land acquisition but the government was interested in land pooling after convincing people and farmers.
