Chapter 3

 

* This chapter draws liberally on Chapter 6 of the author's unpublished thesis, ‘Some Aspects of the Rehabilitation Policy of State Government with Reference to Major Irrigation Projects (A Case Study of Sriramsagar and Srisailam Projects in A.P.)’, Kakatiya University, Warangal, 1992.

1. Intervening in the debate in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly [on N.S.I. Act (Bill) 1958], the revenue minister said that it will not be injust if the compensation is not paid to those farmers who are cultivating government lands. He justified his argument by saying that those lands did not belong to the farmers. In fact, the government had been promising to issue patta rights since 1950 but did not do so.

2. Ibid.

3. Bhagana refers to the ...

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