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The land pooling scheme that built Amaravati, and the round that is open now

The government did not buy this land. It asked farmers to hand it over and take back developed plots and a yearly payment instead. More than 34,000 acres came in within six months, which is the largest voluntary pooling India has seen. A second round started on 7 January 2026.

Last reviewed 2026-08-27

33,008 ac
Pooled in 6 months (2015)
26,512
Farmers in that first sweep
61,793
Plots registered by Dec 2025
16,666 ac
Phase 2 notified (7 villages)

In this section

Phase 1Phase 1: the six months in 2015 that created the capitalAmaravati land pooling Phase 1: the 24 villages and 29 habitations, how much land came in, how many farmers, the 13 zones and where the plots stand in 2026.Read morePhase 2Phase 2: seven villages, 16,666 acres, open since January 2026Amaravati's second round of land pooling: the seven villages and their acres, what the land is for, and the decisions that got it there.Read morePhase 3 (not notified)Amaravati Land Pooling Phase 3: UnconfirmedNo third phase of Amaravati land pooling is notified. What officials said about Tadikonda and Mothadaka, and what the circulating “3.0” village list claims.Read moreWhat you get backWhat a farmer gets back for one acreWhat one pooled acre returns: 1,000 sq yards residential plus 250 commercial for dry land, or 1,000 plus 450 for jareebu, along with the yearly payment.Read moreMoney to farmersThe yearly payment and the pension: who gets what, and for how longWhat CRDA pays pooling farmers each year: ₹30,000 for dry land, ₹50,000 for jareebu, the yearly rise, the 2024 extension, and the ₹5,000 landless pension.Read moreBenefitsEverything the scheme gives, and who it is meant forThe full list of Amaravati land pooling benefits: plots, the yearly payment, the pension, the ₹1.5 lakh loan waiver, free schooling and health care.Read moreThe rulesThe 2015 rules and the 2025 rules, side by sideWhat changed between the 2015 and 2025 Amaravati land pooling rules: plot sizes, the yearly rise, the pension, orchard land, and what stayed the same.Read moreHow it happensFrom the village meeting to a registered plot, step by stepThe nine steps of Amaravati land pooling in order: the notification, the village meeting, the survey, the agreement, the layout, the draw and the certificate.Read moreReturnable plotsLPS Returnable Plots: Units, Zones, E-LotteryHow Amaravati returnable plots work: the 26 layout units across 25 villages, the ₹3,859 crore programme for roads and drains, and the 2026 draw results.Read moreVerificationSeven checks before you pay for an LPS plotHow to check a CRDA land pooling plot before you buy: Know Your Plot, the unit and plot number, the 9.14 certificate, the deed, the EC on IGRS and Mee Bhoomi.Read moreThe papersEvery paper in a land pooling deal, and what it actually provesAmaravati land pooling papers explained simply: the consent letter, the agreement, the provisional and final 9.14 certificates, and the registered deed.Read moreTimelineLand pooling, decision by decision, 2015 to 2026A dated list of every Amaravati land pooling decision: the 2015 rules, the plot handovers, the five-year pause, the 2024 extension and the 2025 rules.Read moreOfficial recordsAPCRDA GIS portal: how to find an Amaravati plot on the mapWhat the APCRDA GIS portal at gis.apcrda.org shows, which layers carry LPS plots and the master plan, and how to place a plot on the map before you buy.Read moreOfficial recordsAPCRDA plot search: by farmer name, by village, by LP numberUse APCRDA's Know Your Plot services to look up LPS farmers by name, check mutations on returnable plots village by village, and confirm an LP number.Read moreLayoutsThe Amaravati LPS map: every layout unit, village by villageWhere each Amaravati land pooling layout sits: the 26 LPS units across 25 villages, the mandal each falls in, and the official maps to check a plot against.Read moreVillagesAll capital villages36 village pages across Phase 1 and Phase 2, with layout units, landmarks and what to check before buying.Read more

How it works, in plain words

1You signthe agreement2Land goes into CRDA3A colonyis drawn4A drawpicks your plot5Registeredin your nameand a payment every year, from the day you sign until the plot is yours

A farmer signs an agreement and hands one acre to CRDA. In return the farmer gets back two plots in a laid-out colony in the same village: a residential plot of 1,000 square yards, and a commercial plot of 250 square yards. If the acre was jareebu, which is the irrigated land near the river and the canals, the commercial plot is 450 square yards instead.

Those plots take years to be ready. So until then the farmer is paid every year for each acre given, and the amount goes up a little every year. This runs for ten years, and for fifteen years for the Phase 1 farmers after the government extended it in 2024. Families who had no land of their own but lived off that land are paid a monthly pension.

The rest of the acre does not come back. It becomes roads, drains, water lines, parks and public land, and some of it is land the authority sells or allots to pay for building the city. That is the trade: you give a farm and you get back a smaller, serviced piece of a city.

Two rounds, two rule books

Phase 1 · 201533,008 acresclosed, plots still arrivingPhase 2 · open now16,666 acresseven villages, consent runningA third roundnot notifiedtalked about, nothing signedyou are hereEvery plot on the market today came out of the first two.
Phase 1Phase 2
RulesCapital City Land Pooling Scheme Rules, 2015Capital Region Land Pooling Scheme Rules, 2025 (announced 4 July 2025)
Villages24 villages, 29 habitations in Thullur, Mangalagiri and Tadepalli mandals7 villages: Vykuntapuram, Pedamadduru, Endrayi, Karlapudi-Lemalle (Palnadu) and Vaddamanu, Harischandrapuram, Pedaparimi (Guntur)
LandTarget 38,581 ac; consent 34,690 ac; 33,008 ac pooled within six months16,666.57 ac patta and assigned; 20,494 ac including 3,828 ac government land
StartedJanuary 20157 January 2026 at Vaddamanu
PurposeThe 217 sq km capital citySports City, railway line and station, Inner Ring Road, seed axis road, institutions; airport in a later phase

Where things stand in August 2026

  • Phase 1 farmers are still being given their plots, a batch at a time, through monthly draws. 496 plots went out on 23 January 2026 and 76 more on 18 July 2026. Roads, drains and water inside the layouts are being built under a ₹3,859 crore programme.
  • At its meeting on 7 July 2026, CRDA approved ₹40,000 towards rent for farmers who pooled from 12 June 2024 onwards, ₹10,000 a year to make up for the village common land that was lost, a loan waiver for families in the newly pooling villages, and an international school in each of the 25 townships.
  • In Phase 2, consent letters were collected village by village from January 2026 with a target of 28 February 2026 for the first round; the opposition has criticised the pace of Phase 1 plot delivery.
  • A third round has not been notified. Officials held pooling consultations in Tadikonda mandal in July and August 2026 for the railway line and Inner Ring Road, and a village list is circulating privately: we check it name by name on Phase 3, unconfirmed.

Questions people ask

Is land pooling the same as the government taking my land?

No, and the difference matters. When land is acquired, the government pays cash under the 2013 law and the land is gone for good. Pooling is something you agree to: you give the land and you get back developed plots, a yearly payment and other benefits. Amaravati was built mostly on pooling, with acquisition used only for people who refused and for a few specific projects.

Was Pedaparimi part of Phase 1?

No. Pedaparimi stayed a revenue village of Thullur mandal outside the 2015 capital city notification. It is one of the seven Phase 2 villages, with 5,886.18 acres of patta land notified in November 2025.

How many farmers gave their land?

CRDA's own status report counted 26,839 farmers by late 2017. In the first six months of 2015 alone, 33,008 acres came from 26,512 farmers. Land Conflict Watch, which tracks these things independently, counts 21,374 households affected.

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