Kopparthy Industrial Smart City (Kadapa Industrial City): Land Acquisition Status

How land is being assembled: consolidation, not a fresh consent drive

Kopparthy's land story is different from typical greenfield industrial-city acquisitions. Environmental-clearance filings for the project show that the proposed Kopparthy site of 2595.74 acres/1050.45 ha is located at Kopparthy, Tadigotla village in Chinthakommadinne Mandal, Kadapa, with 2396.15 acres of land already in the possession of APIIC and the balance 199.59 acres separately owned. That means the bulk of the core site was consolidated state/APIIC land bank rather than land newly notified for compulsory acquisition from private farmers.

The most recent NICDC project-monitoring report confirms this pattern is continuing: a consultant for Detailed Master Planning and Preliminary Engineering for the Kopparthy Node, 5,760 acres in Andhra Pradesh, has been appointed, wherein GoAP proposed 2,595 acres of which approximately 2,400 acres (92%) of land is under possession of the state government. No separate RFCTLARR Section-11 notification, Social Impact Assessment, or district-level compensation award specific to Kopparthy was found in available public records — consistent with a land-transfer/consolidation model rather than a fresh farmer-consent acquisition drive.

Compensation rates: none published for Kopparthy specifically

New Cities India could not find any published, Kopparthy-specific per-acre compensation rate, RERA reference, or Collector's award figure in current reporting or government filings. This is consistent with the acquisition model above: because most of the core 2,595-acre site was already APIIC/government land, there has been no large-scale farmer compensation exercise of the kind seen in other AP land projects (such as Amaravati's land-pooling scheme).

Where India's land law would apply — for any residual private parcels still to be taken over — the standard national framework is the RFCTLARR Act, 2013, under which compensation for owners is set at four times the market value in rural areas and twice in urban areas, with a solatium of 100% and additional multipliers depending on whether the land is in rural or urban areas. No Kopparthy-specific order applying these multipliers, or any locally negotiated rate, has been reported. This page will be updated with rates if and when Collector awards or gazette notifications for Kopparthy villages are published.

Villages and mandals covered

All identified project land falls within a single district — YSR Kadapa — and mainly within one mandal. The core site is described in official filings as located at Kopparthy, Tadigotla village in Chinthakommadinne Mandal, Kadapa, currently YSR District. A related component, the YSR Electronic Manufacturing Cluster within the same hub, has a wider study area, with village mandals falling in the study area including Chinthakommadinne, Vallur, Pendlimarri, Kadapa and Chennur mandals, and its own site described as falling in Kopparthy (Chintakommadinne mandal), Rampathadu (Pendlimarri mandal), and Ambavaram (Valluru mandal), YSR Kadapa District.

For scale, Chinthakommadinne mandal itself is a large administrative unit — directory records list it as having 24 villages with village category details, 54,788 population, sex ratio, 318.88 sq km area — so only a small subset of villages within the mandal (chiefly Kopparthy and Tadigotla) overlap the actual industrial-park footprint; the industrial site is not spread across the entire mandal.

Across the wider YSR Kadapa district, the state industrial infrastructure agency reports a much larger cumulative land bank beyond just Kopparthy: 11,528.17 acres of land acquired for establishment of Industrial Parks and land for others, plus 46,104.35 acres identified and requisition filed for 27,823.43 acres for a land bank, in YSR District. This district-wide figure covers all industrial estates in YSR Kadapa, not Kopparthy alone.

Budget allocated

When the Kopparthy and Orvakal industrial smart cities were formally cleared by the Union Cabinet in August 2024, the central government put a specific figure on Kopparthy: the industrial smart city would come up in Kopparthy in 2,596 acres and the centre would spend Rs 2,137 crore on this smart city, which would provide 54,500 jobs. This was part of a larger package — the Union Cabinet approved 12 new project proposals under the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme with an estimated investment of Rs 28,602 crore, covering Kopparthy, Orvakal and the Nakkapalli pharma cluster together, so the Rs 28,602 crore figure should not be read as Kopparthy's budget alone.

Separately, at the state level, an acreage figure of 25,969 acres to be allotted to the Kopparthi industrial hub to provide employment to 54,000 people was also cited by the Chief Minister in the same announcement cycle — a much larger number than the 2,595–2,596-acre core site quoted elsewhere in the same reporting cycle. New Cities India flags this as a discrepancy in the source reporting rather than resolving it, since both figures appear in the same official announcement coverage.

On project financing mechanics, NICDC's own monitoring report (dated 31 January 2026) records that 878 acres of land was transferred by the state government to the Project SPV, with matching equity amounting to Rs 300 crore released under the SPV that now covers both the Orvakal and Kopparthy nodes jointly — so this figure should be read as covering both projects together, not Kopparthy in isolation.

Disputes or farmer negotiations

New Cities India found no reporting of farmer protests, compensation disputes, or negotiation standoffs specific to Kopparthy as of the most recent available records (through January 2026). This is different from other high-profile Andhra Pradesh and South Indian land-acquisition stories in the same period — for instance, the Amaravati capital land-pooling revival has drawn organised protests and litigation, and Karnataka has seen sustained, multi-year farmer agitation over industrial land acquisitions elsewhere. No comparable pattern has surfaced for Kopparthy in current search results, which is consistent with the site being built largely on pre-existing APIIC/government land rather than fresh compulsory acquisition from a large number of individual farmers.

This page will be updated if district gazette notifications, Collector's awards, or local protest reporting specific to Kopparthy villages become available.

Current stage (as of the latest available records)

Based on NICDC's own project-monitoring reports, the sequence of confirmed milestones is:

• The state government requested inclusion of Kadapa (Kopparthy) as an additional node in Andhra Pradesh, and a consultant for Detailed Master Planning and Preliminary Engineering for the Kopparthy Node (5,760 acres) was appointed, with GoAP proposing 2,595 acres for the core site.
• The Master Plan for the node was completed and notified on 11 September 2025.
• The existing SPV — with mandate earlier limited to Krishnapatnam — was expanded to Orvakal and Kopparthy through an SSA/SHA amendment dated 30 October 2024, and renamed the AP Industrial Corridor Infrastructure Development Corporation.
• The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone for the project on 16 October 2025.
• An EPC agreement was executed between the JV of BSR Infratech India Ltd and Star Infratech and APICDC (SPV) on 30 October 2025, and site establishment works, cut-and-grade works, and design preparation were initiated by the EPC contractor.
• A kick-off meeting of the EPC contract for the Orvakal and Kopparthy Industrial Areas was held on 24 December 2025 under the chairmanship of the CEO & MD, NICDC, with participation from the SPV, EPC contractor, PMNC and Master Planning Consultant.

Separately, a state-level notification reviewed by industry press describes a larger master-planned footprint: the Government of Andhra Pradesh finalized the master plan for the new industrial node at Kopparthy in Kadapa district, spanning approximately 6,740 acres, with the Department of Industries and Commerce officially notifying the plan and designating 53% of the total land for industrial development. The node has also been structured around four categories of industries, with 59 classified under the "red category" covering high-impact sectors such as chemicals, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, mini power stations, and sugar. Readers should treat the 5,760-acre (NICDC) and 6,740-acre (state notification) figures as figures from two different official sources rather than assume they describe an identical footprint.