Visakhapatnam, Dec 22 (IANS): In a peculiar development, Peela Govinda Satyanarayana, from whom Andhra Pradesh revenue department recovered 60 acres of encroached government land recently is shying away from claiming ownership.

"Peela Govidna Satyanarayana people are not coming forward that this land belongs to them," a revenue official from the city told IANS.

Satyanarayana was a former Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MLA.

"Some other people are coming. So they are confusing us saying this land is ours, this land is ours. They are claiming," he said about the unique problem the department was facing.

After recovering the land parcel, estimated to be nearly Rs 1 crore an acre, the revenue department has carried out a field survey on Monday.

On Sunday, the department recovered the land from survey number 156 in Bhimannadorapalem limits of Anandapuram mandal.

Similarly, officials have also demolished a few sheds in encroached government land of Municipal Administration Minister Botcha Satyanarayana's relatives.

Incidentally, the minister directed officials not to spare even his relatives and recover the encroached land.

Visakhapatnam, popularly known as Vizag has become a flashpoint for recovering encroached government lands over the past few months.

Earlier, encroached land was recovered from private Gitam university and a resort as well.

Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has vowed to make the city as the executive capital of the southern state as part of his three-capital plan to diversify development all over the state rather than concentrating in Amaravati alone.