Kakinada, Jan 15th: The farmers affected by the Kakinada Special Economic Zone (KSEZ) has decided to move the High Court against the ''controversial'' Government Orders (GOs) directing conversion of all acquired agricultural lands for industrial purposes waiving the prescribed fee and stoppage of water supply to these lands. The farmers are agitating under the banner of 'KSEZ Vyatireka Porata Samiti'. Samiti Convenor Chinta Suryanarayana Murthy told media that the farmers of all the villages in U Kothapalli Mandal and Thondangi Mandals, at their meeting, decided to challenge the two GOs as they were discriminatory and aimed at benefiting the KSEZ promoters.

Since they had already moved the High Court and obtained stay orders restraining the KSEZ promoters from going ahead with the taking possession of the acquired lands, he said, the farmers had decided to wait for the court's verdict. Meanwhile, if the KSEZ promoters resorted to take up work in the acquired lands in violation of the court's order, they would resist it with all their might. The KSEZ promoters secured nearly 8,200 acre till now of which 4,850 acre were by direct negotiations with the farmers and 2,500 acre ''under coercion'' using land acquisition proceedings through the district administration.