Guntur: Anti-LPS farmers get a Japanese design boost'

Guntur: While there is a general sense of disappointment among the TD supporters over the AP government accepting the less expensive Japanese designs for Amaravati, the decision has given a chance to anti-LPS landowners to thump their chests. However, anti-LPS farmers in Undavalli and Penumaka questioned the need for collecting huge chunks of land for establishing the new capital when the government was preferring cost-effective construction. G. Rajesh and other villagers welcomed the concept of green and blue capital with priority to the environment, while reminding that the government was turning nearly 50,000 acres of fertile land into barren land while important establishments like the Assembly and Secretariat would come up in only 900 acres. “As the government was preferring to go for cost-effective methods and promoting the green and blue concept, it should rethink about collecting huge chunks of land,” they said.