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Government flayed over violation of laws in Amaravati
Addressing a press conference after their visit to villages in the capital region, Medha Patkar accused the government of ignoring tenets of Land Acquisition Act of 2013, the environmental acts and the rights of the people in the villages. She alleged that the government has made several people jobless. She accused the government for taking up various massive constructions as temporary works and
Vijayawada: A delegation of the National Alliance of Peoples’ Movements (NAPM) here on Thursday alleged that the State government had violated all existing laws of the land in the name of building a new capital city. The delegation, headed by Medha Patkar, accused the State government of destroying agriculture and natural resources in the new capital.
Addressing a press conference after their visit to villages in the capital region, Medha Patkar accused the government of ignoring tenets of Land Acquisition Act of 2013, the environmental acts and the rights of the people in the villages. She alleged that the government has made several people jobless. She accused the government for taking up various massive constructions as temporary works and thus wasting public money. “We can’t expect a government to spend a whopping Rs 800 crore on a building and call it temporary office,” she said.
She charged that the rights of the agriculture workers, Dalits, women and others in the 29 villages are suppressed and their welfare was ignored. She urged the human rights activists to fight for the people. She also found fault with the indiscriminate mining of sand in the river Krishna and said that the mining would pose a greater threat to the cities of Amaravati and Vijayawada in near future. She said that the government was not following the laws related to mining activity.
Citing an example of mining in river bed, in the vicinity of the Chief Minister’s residence, she wondered how a ruler can allow it unless he was in favour of it. NAPM activist from Delhi, Bhupendra Singh Rawat, wondered why the government had acquired 55,000 acres of land for the capital. “The capital of this country is New Delhi, which is just one-fourth of the total area of Delhi State.
Even Chandigarh city, which is the capital for two States is in a smaller area. I wonder what is this State government plans to do with this huge extent of land taken from the people,” he quipped.NAPM Andhra Pradesh convener, B Ramakrishna Raju, former
Minister Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao, capital area farmers activist Anumolu Gandhi and others were present.
