Andhra Pradesh's renewable energy nodal agency NREDCAP said 40,000 acres of government land have been handed over to developers and 1 lakh acres of assigned private land are now under a tripartite agreement mechanism, where a farmer holding government-assigned land that cannot otherwise be sold or leased can route it to a renewable energy project through an agreement between the farmer, developer and NREDCAP, with the developer paying the farmer Rs 31,000 per acre per year. The interview also detailed roughly 112 GW of sanctioned renewable capacity against a 160 GW state target.
What this changes for a title check
Assigned land, meaning land the government has given to a landless or marginal farmer under a land-assignment scheme, normally cannot be sold, mortgaged or leased at all because assignment conditions typically bar alienation, so the tripartite mechanism described here is a specific, government-sanctioned workaround rather than an ordinary lease that a lawyer would normally recognise. Anyone reviewing title or security for an Andhra Pradesh renewable energy project on land described as assigned land should ask specifically whether it is routed through this NREDCAP tripartite structure, since without it the assignment's non-alienation condition would ordinarily make any private lease or sale void.
For a lender's due diligence, this also means the underlying land title still legally sits with the farmer as an assignee, not with the developer, so any security interest available to a lender is limited to whatever rights the tripartite agreement itself creates, not a normal leasehold mortgage. A title check should pull the specific tripartite agreement and confirm it was actually executed and registered as described, rather than accepting a general reference to 1 lakh acres of assigned land as proof for any individual parcel.