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Wednesday, Jul 26, 2006

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Land allotment: BJP seeks all-party meet

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: Bharatiya Janata Party has urged Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy to convene an all-party meeting and evolve a policy on allotment of Government land to individuals and organisations in the city and surrounding districts.

Addressing a press conference after a delegation called on Dr. Reddy and submitted a memorandum on Tuesday, party leaders Bandaru Dattatreya and Baddam Bal Reddy accused the Government of continuing the TDP legacy. They said while 8,400 acres were allotted during N. Chandrababu Naidu's rule, 53,504 acres were now proposed to be sold.

Faulting the Government for auctioning lands, they said it seemed to believe selling land was the only means of mobilising resources. After acquiring land at nominal rates from farmers, the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority was auctioning each acre at rates ranging from Rs. 4 to 10 crores. They demanded compensation either at market rate to farmers or provision of equal area of land elsewhere.

They demanded cancellation of GO 912 issued during the TDP regime for payment of compensation to farmers after acquiring 15 acres at Dhoolapally for setting up a pipeline market.

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