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Many of them are small farmers who were allotted land long back and now the government wants to take back their land for the project. Earlier too we held a vanta varpu programme in June and“ The then Collector P.
Venkataram Reddy and RDO K Shankar Kumar promised to address our problem within 10 days, but nothing happened. Even as politicians and officials are busy preparing for the elections, the land outees of Gudatipally of Akkannapet mandal under Gouravelli reservoir have been holding dharna and vanta varpu at the project site for the past week demanding that they be paid compensation before continuing the works. However, it was not completed so far and the farmers who sold their lands to the government could not buy lands elsewhere as they were not paid compensation so far. “While some of them were paid ? 7 lakh for a structure under one GO, similar structure under another GO was paid ? 21 lakh which is a huge variation..