Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh authorities on Tuesday notified the Andhra Pradesh Capital Area Land Pooling Scheme (Formulation and Implementation) Guidelines, 2025, which is able to govern the distinctive technique of pooling land for constructing the greenfield capital metropolis of Amaravati.
S Suresh Kumar, principal secretary to the federal government, Municipal Administration and Urban Growth, mentioned these guidelines shall apply to the ‘capital area’ besides the ‘capital metropolis space’ which is able to proceed to be ruled by the Andhra Pradesh Capital Metropolis Land Pooling Scheme (Formulation and Implementation) Guidelines, 2015.
“Consistent with the desire of the Authorities to construct ‘Individuals’s Capital’ and for constructing the mandatory concomitant infrastructural initiatives like airports, ports and all different vital initiatives, the procurement mechanism of the land has been designed to be a voluntary scheme,” mentioned Kumar in a authorities order (GO).
It’s primarily based on mutual consensus between the landowners and the state/authority, mentioned Kumar, including that it is a distinctive technique of procurement of land, which is called and styled as ‘Land Pooling Scheme’.
The ‘Land Pooling Scheme’ guidelines come at a time when the federal government is planning to show greenfield capital metropolis Amaravati right into a ‘mega metropolis’ by combining adjoining Mangalagiri, Tadepalli, Guntur, and Vijayawada with Amaravati.
This endeavour goals to pool a further 40,000 acres of land, in addition to the 54,000 acres of land on which the federal government is already sitting for Amaravati.
The federal government is planning to construct a global airport in Amaravati.
The ‘Land Pooling Scheme’ has been designed for growing the Capital Area whereby the land parcels owned by particular person farmers and house owners or group of householders are consolidated by the authority underneath a growth scheme, he mentioned.
In accordance with Kumar, the ‘Land Pooling Scheme’ is a greater scheme formulated by the Andhra Pradesh State Legislature owing to the mandate enabled underneath Sections 107 and 108 of the Proper to Honest Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.
“The broad goal of the scheme is to do justice to the households affected by the development of a Livable and Sustainable Capital Area for the State of Andhra Pradesh and likewise to the farmers and land house owners within the Capital Area and likewise to make them avail a greater compensation and likewise with a view to make them Companions within the State Growth Course of,” mentioned the principal secretary.
It’s designed in such a fashion that the participant land house owners are pretty compensated with the allotment of the reconstituted plot together with the developed infrastructure, amongst different advantages, mentioned Kumar.
