Fifty-year-old Hadnoor Manik of Metalkunta village in Nyalakal mandal knows only farming and is a worried man now as he does not know to eke out a livelihood without land. Their land is proposed to be acquired for the National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ).
The compensation amount being offered by the Government will allow him to buy only two acres and with such a small extent of land he has no clue as to what can be done to earn enough to support his family.
Stating that theirs is a fertile land yielding two crops a year, he wondered if could get the same kind of fertile land once again.
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"We are not averse to parting away with our land provided the Government is ready to pay compensation as per Land Acquisition Act 2013 and offers four times the market value for the land. Why is the land acquired under G.O. 123 instead of Parliament Act?" asked Barur Sangareddy, a 20-acre landlord, who will become a small farmer with four acres of land.
Many of the participants, who came from different villages for the five-day padaytra of Communist Party of India (Marxist) against land acquisition under G.O. 123, are with little hope that someone will come to their rescue. The yatra will come to an end at the collectorate in Sangareddy on May 24.