Ramoji Film City may lose land to ORR

Md A Basith / TNN / Jul 6, 2006, 02:19 IST

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The proposed alignment of phase-II of the Outer Ring Road might cost 40 acres of land to Ramoji Film City.

HYDERABAD: Bowing to pressure from the farmers of Peddamberpet to change the alignment of phase-II of the Outer Ring Road (ORR), the authorities are planning to deviate from the original alignment once again.
The latest move might cost 40 acres of land to Ramoji Film City (RFC) apart from the Film City losing the main entrance gate as well as the Rama Devi Public School of the Ramoji family.
The existing alignment goes via Brahmanapally to Koheda and then Koheda to Peddamberpet. The length of this stretch is 16 km. The proposed alignment is Brahmanapally-Ramdaspally-Abdullahpurmet-Rama Devi Public School-Bacharam.
The length of the proposed alignment is 18 km. There will be an increase in the length because of the curves that the proposed alignment will have to face.

The proposed alignment will cut into the Rama Devi Public School situated near RFC and also eat up more land of the RFC.
The ORR junction was supposed to come at Peddamberpet but since the proposed alignment is totally deviating from Peddamberpet the junction will also change.
As per the technical study, the junction on the proposed alignment will come at the main gate of the RFC covering 80 acres to 100 acres around it.

Though the junction on the proposed alignment covers a part of the RFC land the main gate might be affected. The officials have estimated that the RFC might have to lose around 40 acres of land.
Farmers of Peddamberpet in Hayatnagar mandal are not ready to give up the fight against the acquisition of their agricultural land for the ORR Project.
About 40 farmer families have intensified the agitation against the acquisition of their land and are not allowing the officials to conduct survey work in their village.
The farmers who launched a hunger strike a few months ago are now threatening self-immolation in case their land is acquired.
The proposed alignment is said to be prepared by the villagers and the same was communicated to the authorities. The authorities are convinced that the loss of land will be lesser if the proposed alignment is taken up.
But when it comes to the junction on the proposed alignment instead of agricultural land residential plots owned by individuals might be affected.
"Several residential plots have been developed along the proposed alignment and also at the proposed new junction. But the farmers of Peddamberpet contend that the loss to individual's would be much lesser. They say forcing a family to give up acres of land is not correct," an official said.
The farmers of Peddamberpet have gone to the extent of engaging women to prevent officials from stepping in their village. The officials of ORR have made several unsuccessful attempts to conduct surveys for the last two months.
The farmers of Peddamberpet have got strong support from BJP Rangareddy district unit, CPI and TRS leaders. Land value in the villages have gone up by several folds and the farmers are not ready to compromise on giving their land for the ORR.

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