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Spare land, say assignees of Fasalwadi village

Staff Reporter

Land recalled by administration to facilitate construction of housing project
‘Farmers forced to lease lands to brick makers to compensate losses’

Sangareddy: Assignees of survey numbers 543, 544 and 599 of Fasalwadi village met Collector Piyush Kumar on Monday and urged him to spare the assigned land, which was recalled by the administration to facilitate construction of a housing project.

Representing the assignees, former chairman of District Cane Development Committee P. Manikyam said that the assignees have been in the possession of the said land from last five decades. He pointed out that it is surprising to note that the government, which claims that it has given utmost importance to land distribution to the poor, is hell bent on snatching away land from the poor farmers.

He said that there is nothing wrong if the beneficiaries use the land for sand mining or brick making as there is nothing else they could do in the absence of irrigation facility.

The farmers also told the Collector that they have invested huge amounts to sink bore wells in the assigned land but all of them have failed plunging them into debts. They said that they were forced to lease the lands to brick makers to compensate the losses.

However the Collector assured the assignees that no land under cultivation would be recalled for the housing project.

He was categorical in saying that the land which was sub let would be acquired as the purpose of assigned land has been defeated.

The assignees later told the reporters that they would meet the opposition leader N. Chandrababu Naidu in Hyderabad urging his intervention.

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