Land Pooling delayed by lack of Telugu forms!

The land pooling in Capital villages began couple of days ago and the officials are working on ground with the farmers to pool in as many as acres by Sankranthi. However the process is not progressing as expected due to the non availability of Telugu forms.

‘Form 9.3’ of the CRDA is of eight pages and most farmers who do not know English were not happy with them and wanted to read the Telugu forms before signing. The land pooling in various villages was stopped until the Telugu forms arrived. over the land documents and pattadar passbooks only after getting the Telugu consent letters.

The farmers have clarified that they will hand over the land documents and pattadar passbooks only after getting the Telugu consent letters. Officials say the forms are expected to arrive today or tomorrow. 51786 acres of land is available in the first phase land pooling villages and the government is targeting to pool in 38000 acres. Three different packages were announced for the land losing farmers in the capital area depending on the number of crops grown in those lands.