Glossary
The words in an Amaravati land deal
Twenty-five terms, defined the way a lawyer or an APCRDA clerk would use them.
- APCRDA (CRDA full form)
- Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority. CRDA on its own stands for Capital Region Development Authority. It was created by the APCRDA Act of 30 December 2014, and it plans, pools and builds the capital. More
- ADC / ADCL
- Amaravati Development Corporation, the state's construction and project-management company for the capital.
- Annuity
- A yearly payment per acre to a pooling farmer: ₹30,000 (dry) or ₹50,000 (jareebu), rising each year, for 10 years (15 for Phase 1). More
- Assigned land
- Government land given to landless families under the AP Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act. It cannot be sold freely, and it gets different LPS entitlements.
- Capital city
- The 217.23 sq km urban notified area of Amaravati, made up of 24 villages and 29 habitations.
- Capital Region
- The 8,352.69 sq km area under APCRDA, across parts of six districts and 58 mandals. More
- Development agreement-cum-irrevocable GPA
- The document a farmer signs to hand land to APCRDA under the LPS. The annuity runs from its date. More
- Dry land / metta
- Agricultural land with no irrigation in the revenue record. LPS entitlement: 1,000 + 250 sq yards per acre. More
- E roads / N roads
- The master plan's grid of east-west and north-south main roads. The Seed Access Road is E3. More
- Encumbrance certificate (EC)
- A statement from the registration department that lists the registered sales and charges on a property over a period. You get it from IGRS AP.
- Final allotment certificate (9.14)
- The certificate under the LPS rules that confirms a farmer's returnable plot. 'A 9.14 plot' means a plot that has this certificate. More
- IGC
- Interim Government Complex at Velagapudi, the working Secretariat since October 2016. More
- IRR / ORR
- Inner Ring Road (APCRDA, PPP) and Outer Ring Road (NHAI; a main ring of roughly 190 km). More
- Jareebu
- Wet, irrigated land in the revenue record, usually along the Krishna and the canals. LPS entitlement: 1,000 + 450 sq yards per acre. More
- LPS
- Land Pooling Scheme. More
- LPS unit
- One of APCRDA's numbered village layouts (Units 1 to 26) where returnable plots are located. More
- LPS zone
- One of 13 infrastructure zones that group layouts together for road and utility contracts.
- Mee Bhoomi
- Andhra Pradesh's online land records portal for the pahani, 1B and adangal.
- Pahani / adangal
- The yearly record of cultivation and land category for a survey number.
- Patta
- Registered private ownership of agricultural land. The pattadar is the recorded owner.
- Reconstituted plot / returnable plot
- The developed plot a farmer gets back in exchange for pooled land.
- Road-cut plot
- A returnable plot later affected by a road alignment. It is re-allotted through the e-lottery.
- Section 55
- The section of the APCRDA Act under which land pooling schemes are notified.
- Seed capital
- The 16.94 sq km core of the city, with the government complex. The Seed Access Road is named after it. More
- Sub-registrar
- The registration office where deeds are registered and stamp duty is paid.
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