VIJAYAWADA: The Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress (YSRC) government restarted  its efforts to handle the Amaravati issue by proposing the area’s development as a municipality with inclusion of 22 villages in it.

On Monday, the procedure for hosting Grama Sabhas to gather public opinion on the construction of the Amaravati Municipality will begin. The Jagan administration's plan for decentralisation, which aims to develop all of AP, will also be carried out, according to YSR Congress.

The government had previously set up the Mangalagiri-Tadepalli Municipal Corporation (MTMC), and the plan had been successful. The idea was accepted by the residents of the two municipalities. In a similar vein, the chief minister suggested in January of this year to create the Amaravati Municipal Corporation with the 19 villages of Amaravati, and in order to secure the support of the locals, Grama Sabhas were held in the same month.

The majority of the communities opposed the idea and demanded that all 29 be included in the AMC. Thus, the project was halted by the administration.

According to the Land Pooling Scheme, up to 34,000 farmers gave their land for Amaravati, and the majority of them want Amaravati to be the sole capital of AP. They petitioned the high court and were granted directions to build Amaravati in accordance with earlier agreements and the master plan.

The government resumed Amaravati construction projects in recent months following the HC ruling. The government chose to create Amaravati Municipality with 22 villages, of which 19 are in Thullur Mandal and the remaining three are in Mangalagiri Mandal, after prior attempts to construct AMC were unsuccessful.

It is suggested that the Thullur Mandal include the communities of Abbarajupalem, Dondapadu, Mandadam, Nekkallu, Nelapadu, Sakhamuru, Thullur, Pedaparimi, Vaddamanu, Harichandrapuram, Uddandarayunnipalem, Velagapudi, Lingayapalem, Ananthavaram, Rayapudi, Malkapuram, Aina Additionally, Mangalagiri's Kuragallu, Neerukonda, and Krishnayapalem would be a part of the Amaravati Municipality.

Beginning today (Monday), meetings will be place in Lingayapalem, Uddandarayunipalem, and Harichandrapuram as part of the Grama Sabhas. The gathering will continue every day via other villages till September 17.

By creating a new municipality with only 22 villages out of 29 villages, the pro-Amaravati farmers claim that the government is planning to divide Amaravati farmers. They regretted that the government is attempting to gain the support of people who support it while the Amaravati farmers are participating in a Maha Padayatra. They emphasised that they would pursue legal alternatives to stop the plot and would not waver in their defence of Amaravati as the sole capital of Andhra Pradesh.

The YSRC leaders contend that Amaravati was not declared the state capital and that the Chandrababu government did not attempt to develop the villages in Amaravati. The government had previously tried in vain to turn Amaravati into a municipal corporation, so it began a new endeavour to turn it into a municipality with 22 villages. This is a wise decision because Amaravati will now take on the shape of a legislative capital city in stead of just being a collection of 29 villages, they said.

The YSRC is not opposed to Amaravati, and the administration plans to develop it as the legislative capital, according to Ministers Botsa Satyanarayana and others. He claimed that the restarting of the stopped work and subsequent efforts to give a city a geographical shape under the Amaravati Municipality Plan demonstrated the government's commitment to the cause of developing Amaravati. He expressed the hope that the public would give its approval during the current round of Grama Sabhas.