Amaravati: Capital Region Land Pooling Scheme rules notified; Andhra eyes additional 40,000 acres of land
The state aims to pool an additional 40,000 acres of land, apart from the 54,000 acres already pooled for Amaravati
By Sistla Dakshina Murthy
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 ācapital regionā, except the ācapital city areaā, which will continue under the existing 2015 Land Pooling Scheme rules.
Voluntary and consensus-based
āThe procurement mechanism has been designed as a voluntary scheme based on mutual consensus between landowners and the government, to build the āPeopleās Capitalā and necessary infrastructure like airports and ports,ā 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.
āThe 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 stateās development process,ā 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 āLand Pooling Schemeā.