Govt should scrap OTS scheme, says Velagapudi

‘This is only a ploy to harass the poor and earn some money for welfare schemes’

Visakhapatnam (East) said that the state government should immediately cancel the OTS (One Time Settlement) scheme, as it is not only a ploy to harass the poor, but also some money for its welfare schemes by training guns on the poor. To earn too. Velagapudi Ramakrishna Babu, MLA from Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, he said around 80,000 pattas were given to the poor during the TDP regime and the two-year lockdown period has been completed by 2018. But despite this the government is not registering the lease and now it has. He started OTS scheme to earn some money.

During the TDP rule, the then Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had announced free pattas up to 100 square yards to the poor. He said that the nominal registration value was fixed at 7.5% to a maximum of 30% on the base price of 100 to 500 square yards.

“But the YSRCP government has declared free only up to 75 square yards and is levying 75% on land of 75 to 150 square yards and 100% on land above 150 to 300 more square yards,” said Mr. Ramakrishna Babu. .

He also criticized the state government for putting the picture of Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on the bond stamp paper.

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