Hyderabad, July 12 -- The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to put on hold the process for the pooling of around 42,226 acres of additional land for the second phase of Amaravati capital city development, following resistance from the farmers in the villages, officials familiar with the development said on Friday. The decision was taken at the state cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on July 9. "The pooling of additional land for the capital was to be decided by the cabinet, but it was decided to keep the decision in abeyance, as some ministers expressed apprehensions over the negative fallout of the decision," an official of the municipal administration and urban development (MAUD) department, privy to the matter said. He said the cabinet decided to refer the matter to a group of ministers that is currently engaged in allotment of land to various entities in Amaravati capital city to "talk to and convince the farmers." It was only July 1 that state municipal administration and urban development principal secretary Suresh Kumar issued the gazette notification on Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Land Pooling Scheme (Formulation and Implementation) Rules 2025. The notification was aimed at acquiring the required land from farmers belonging to 28 villages in four revenue blocks of Guntur and Palnadu districts around the present Amaravati capital region for the development of additional infrastructure projects like airport, railway lines and roads. It was proposed to acquire 7,257 acres from the farmers under the second phase of land pooling in Tadikonda mandal, 10,878 acres in Thullur mandal, 19,504 in Amaravati mandal and 4,586 in Pedakurapadu mandal....