Justice A Rajasekhar Reddy of the Hyderabad high court on Monday gave three weeks deadline to the AP government to define its land pooling scheme. The judge was hearing a writ petition registered by several of farmers of Mangalagiri and Tadepalli mandals of Guntur district, blaming the state of offencing its own policy guidelines and compelling them to unite land pooling policy.
They told they were asked by the government to describe the causes for not submitting up their land for pooling while the instructions made it clear that the land acquisition should be performed with free consent of farmers Counsel for the petitioners P Sudhakar Reddy told still after the farmers mentioned the causes for their hesitations, the state was neither taking any determination on the objections nor permitting the farmers to grow a second crop.
Arguing for the state, additional advocate general Dammalapati Srinivas told the court that the Capital Region Development Authority stretched the date until February 28 to get either the approval or the objection from the farmers. “
Thereafter, the authority will decide and pass appropriate orders after taking into consideration the applications of the farmers. In fact, there is no immediate threat to these farmers, “he said. The judge then told the AP counsel to file the state's counter within three weeks.
