Archive · 4 Sep 2026
Collector Pushes Faster Land Acquisition for Major Projects
The district Collector wants officials to acquire land faster for several public and industrial projects.
These include irrigation projects, a national highway, railway doubling and industrial developments.
Some landowners have concerns about the highway land acquisition.
Officials must meet with them and try to solve their problems.
For railway work, officials must identify land, mark boundaries and pay compensation.
The survey for private land needed by the BrahMos missile manufacturing plant must finish within 10 days.
Officials must also speed up land acquisition for the Amar Raja project road and Kurumurthy Temple development.
Progress on the Ajilapur project will be checked every day.
Mahabubnagar Collector Khushboo Gupta directed officials to accelerate land acquisition for several major projects.
Officials were told to resolve landowners’ grievances over Bharatmala National Highway land acquisition in Bhootpur.
Railway doubling officials must complete awards on time and speed up compensation payments.
The survey of private land for the BrahMos missile manufacturing plant must be completed within 10 days.
Officials were directed to expedite acquisition for industrial, temple-development and irrigation projects, including Ajilapur and Lakshmidevipally.
- Who
- Mahabubnagar District Collector Khushboo Gupta and district officials.
- What
- Officials were directed to accelerate land acquisition, surveys, awards and compensation payments for multiple projects.
- Where
- Mahabubnagar district, including Bhootpur and the areas covered by the named projects.
- Why
- To support irrigation, highway, railway, industrial and development projects and resolve pending landowner issues within set timelines.
- District
- Mahabubnagar
- Collector
- Khushboo Gupta
- Highway issue
- Officials were instructed to meet landowners in Bhootpur and address their grievances.
- Railway work
- Awards and compensation payments for railway line doubling are to be completed or expedited.
- BrahMos survey deadline
- The private-land survey was ordered to be completed within 10 days.
- Projects reviewed
- Irrigation, Bharatmala National Highway, railway doubling, industrial projects and Kurumurthy Temple development.
- Monitoring instruction
- Progress on Ajilapur land acquisition is to be monitored daily.