Andhra Pradesh - Guntur   

Project oustees for better compensation

Staff Reporter

Objections on R&R to be received till Wednesday

GUNTUR: Emmajigudem is one of the villages that would get partially submerged and people there have a peculiar problem -- people on one side of a street are likely to get compensation, while those on the other side deprived of it. This entire crisis has arisen after the ground-level marking of contour of area of submergence by engineers.

The Draft Notification has been published in respect of about 5,000 acres so far, while for another 6,000 acres also this needs to be done.

While this process is on, the last date for receiving objections on the Relief and Rehabilitation Package for each village/habitation with broad specifics is Wednesday.

Socio-economic survey

This R&R package based on socio-economic survey will be finalized after getting approval for the draft R&R Package. The draft would be sent to Government by October 1, Joint Collector Rahul Bojja said.

Special Deputy Collector Chakravarthi would publish the draft declarations for the land to be acquired where there is no dispute, on different dates next month. Once the Draft Declaration is published `Five-way' inquiry would be conducted to arrive at the preliminary value (PV), which had to be approved by the Government first.

Based on this PV, the district administration would begin negotiations with villagers in each habitation.

All this could take up to another six months. Meanwhile, people in whose lands would get submerged came out openly against the statements of Minister for Irrigation Ponnala Lakshmaiah that the compensation amount was likely to be same as that paid in Nalgonda district.

Secretary of State Association of Project Oustees Tulasidas along with Communist Party of India District Secretary D. Rama Devi and party leader Chalameswara Rao visited some villages recently to assess the ground situation, where people came in large numbers and spoke their minds.

They demanded higher compensation as they felt that their lands were more fertile.

Mr. Tulasidas also agreed with their arguments and pointed out that at the Gundlakamma project in Prakasam district three different kinds of compensation amounts were fixed for different crops even that of a single owner. The team toured Emmajigudem, Chityala Thanda, Chityala, Gollapeta and Pulichinta villages that would get submerged once the Pulichintala project gets completed. People in these villages spoke of compensation for endowment lands, on which the Government was expressing inability, they pointed out.

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