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Theaviator Junior Artist Username: Theaviator Post Number: 648 Registered: 07-2014 Posted From: 124.123.68.71 Rating: N/A |
WILL HAVE TO SEE, HOW GOVT WILL TACKLE THIS ISSUE OF PRICE MISMATCH.. Balaji Reddy, a resident of Undavalli village in the capital region, is one of several thousand farmers who have petitioned the Andhra Pradesh High Court against land pooling, demanding that they be compensated fairly for their land. “All the villages here are rich, fertile, multi-crop lands,” said Reddy, a tenant farmer cultivating five acres of banana, roses and jasmine. “Our land is worth over 100 million rupees per acre now. We will get less than one-hundredth that rate from the government if we give up our lands for pooling. Why should we be losers?” His neighbour Srinivas Reddy (no relation), a farmer owning half an acre of farmland and cultivating three acres of lily, onion and roses on lease, agrees. “We are earning more than enough to sustain our families now. We cannot afford to put our children through college if we take the government’s offer. In the rural areas, the price of land is only 1 million rupees per acre, so it is lucrative for them to pool the land. That is not the case with us.”} | ||
Theaviator Junior Artist Username: Theaviator Post Number: 647 Registered: 07-2014 Posted From: 124.123.68.71 Rating: N/A |
“But when the first draft arrived, we realised that it would not work.” According to Nagulapalli: “Global town planning principles do not take Vaasthu into consideration. But the people of Andhra Pradesh have a deep-rooted belief and will not buy any property that is not north- or east-facing. We had to send [the draft plan] back to the master planners and ask them to rework it taking these principles into account. The whole capital city project would have had no buyers if the initial draft had been implemented,” he said. There is some debate among Indian historians about how old Vaasthu (which translates from Sanskrit as the “science of architecture”, and is essentially an ancient compilation of rules for various types of building) really is, and who the original author was. What is indisputable, though, is its pervasiveness in Indian society. “The master planners with the Singapore government were puzzled,” Nagulapalli said. “They wanted to know what Vaasthu was and who wrote it. We were stumped. After some rather frantic research, we found that the Indian scholar Varahamihira had written it in the 6th century. We have learnt a lot during the process of building this capital.”} | ||
Theaviator Junior Artist Username: Theaviator Post Number: 646 Registered: 07-2014 Posted From: 124.123.68.71 Rating: N/A |
good coverage on ground http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jan/26/amaravati-andh ra-pradesh-india-singapore-new-state-capital-city |