Lucknow, Jan. 11 -- In a major relief to farmers, the Uttar Pradesh government is set to more than double the compensation for land affected by high-tension power lines and transmission towers by adopting the Central government's Right of Way (RoW) guidelines notified around three years ago.

The move will standardise compensation across the state and bring UP at par with several other states that have already implemented the revised norms. "Since UP has not adopted the Centre's revised compensation guidelines, affected farmers are not getting fair compensation which is sometimes arbitrarily decided by DMs (district magistrates) with more farmers going to courts," a senior energy department official said.

According to officials, the prop...