Telangana govt withdraws land acquisition proposal for pharma metropolis mission | Newest Information India

A notification to this impact was launched by Vikarabad district collector Prateek Jain. The notification stated the federal government has withdrawn the full acquisition of 71.31 acres of assigned land within the Polepally village and one other 632.26 acres of land from the neighbouring Lagacharla village.

The proposed Pharma Metropolis, deliberate to be constructed within the villages of Hakeempet, Lagacharla, and Polepally, acquired robust resistance from the villagers, who have been apprehensive that the mission will take away their fertile lands and have an effect on their livelihoods.

The protests took a violent activate November 11, when irate villagers resisted an try by the district authorities to conduct a public listening to at Lagacharla. Some villagers tried to manhandle the district collector, who managed to flee, however they hurled stones at his automobile and attacked different officers.

Following the incident, police swooped on the village and detained greater than 20 folks, together with senior Bharat Rashtra Samithi chief and former lawmaker Patnam Narender Reddy, who was charged with engineering the assault on the district collector. He has since been in judicial custody.

The assault on the district officers and the arrests made by police triggered an outrage throughout the state, because the farmers went to New Delhi and lodged a grievance with the Nationwide Human Rights Fee, which despatched a fact-finding staff to Lagacharla final week.

The Nationwide ST Fee additionally performed an unbiased inquiry and located fault with police for concentrating on harmless members of the tribal group.

As the difficulty is snowballing into a significant controversy, the (chief minister) Revanth Reddy authorities lastly determined to withdraw the proposal to accumulate land for the pharma metropolis.