BY B. KRISHNA PRASAD HYDERABAD ANDHRA PRADESH has an envious track record when it comes to land acquisition. There have been few protests given the scale of land acquisition for irrigation projects, industries, SEZs and uranium mines and refineries. When nearly 50,000 acres of land was acquired to upgrade Hyderabad to Cyberabad, there was not a single protest. Luckily, much of the land belonged to the Geological Survey of India and the promoter, Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation, did not face much resistance while acquiring the rest. Land in villages of Ranga Reddy district on the periphery of Hyderabad was acquired for software companies, the Indian School of Business, the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hitech City, National Games Village, sports stadia, Integrated International Convention Centre, golf course, financial district.