The Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) land allotment issue is likely to snowball into a major controversy, with a new angle to the mismanagement by the Corporation coming to the fore on Wednesday.
A day after Congress MLA D L Ravindra Reddy
sought a CBI probe into in the land allotments by the APIIC, nearly 200 farmers on Wednesday protested before the state Assembly and claimed that they have not been compensated for their lands at Nanakramguda which the APIIC acquired.
The farmers alleged that APIIC had acquired 23 acres of their land in 2002, and said that they have not yet received a single rupee from the state government as compensation.
The former land owners now say that they they prefer 200 sq yards each for constructing houses, rather than receive monetary compensation.
The farmers said that Telugu film actor Krishna had a plot in the area, and that he was allotted another plot of land when his plot was acquired by the APIIC for industrial purposes.
They say that the government should also give them the same benefits as it did to the actor, and allot them lands.
They further said that they had staged a dharna demanding compensation for their lands for 125 days, but that their protests had fallen on deaf years.
Courtesy: INN