Shanti Bai is a resident of Cheelapally tanda in Jarasangam mandal of Sangareddy district. Almost the entire farm land in the village was acquired by the government for establishment of National Investment and Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) that is coming up in Jarasangam and Nyalakal mandals. and the farmers were paid compensation. Except few acres of land surrounding the tanda, the entire land was acquired for the NIMZ.
Shanti Bai claims she has about two acres of land in the village which she is unable to sell or partition even within family members as it was put in ‘Prohibition list’ by the officials for reasons best known to them.
The villagers, mainly tribals residing in tandas, have the habit of constructing a house in the field itself and sometimes the land in which houses are constructed would be around half acre whereas the house might be in a few hundred yards.
