Amaravati: Capital Region Land Pooling Scheme rules notified; Andhra eyes additional 40,000 acres of land

Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh government has notified the Capital Region Land Pooling Scheme (Formulation and Implementation) Rules, 2025, to regulate land pooling for developing the greenfield capital city of Amaravati.

Capital city area to continue under 2015 rules

According to Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) Principal Secretary S Suresh Kumar, the new rules will apply to the ‘capital region’, except the ‘capital city area’, which will continue under the existing 2015 Land Pooling Scheme rules.

Voluntary and consensus-based

“The procurement mechanism has been designed as a voluntary scheme based on mutual consensus between landowners and the government, to build the ‘People’s Capital’ and necessary infrastructure like airports and ports,” Suresh Kumar said in a government order.

Move to create Mega City

This notification comes amid government plans to develop Amaravati into a megacity by merging adjacent areas such as Mangalagiri, Tadepalli, Guntur, and Vijayawada.

The state aims to pool an additional 40,000 acres of land, apart from the 54,000 acres already pooled for Amaravati, to facilitate this expansion.

Landowners to become partners in development

Explaining the scheme, Kumar said the authority will consolidate individual or group land parcels under a development plan.

“The scheme is formulated under Sections 107 and 108 of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. Its broad objective is to ensure justice to families affected by the capital development, provide better compensation to farmers and landowners, and make them partners in the state’s development process,” he said.

Fair compensation with developed plots

Participant landowners will receive reconstituted plots with developed infrastructure and other benefits as fair compensation under this unique procurement method named the ‘Land Pooling Scheme’.