Chandigarh: The Punjab government’s most ambitious land acquisition exercise has reached a road before it was officially declared.
The state housing department intends to acquire 24,311 acres of land in Southern Ludhiana for the development of urban estate. It is the highest part of the land acquired in the same region in Punjab. The acquisition will be in many areas and the move was approved during the meeting of various department heads headed by the Chief Secretary last month.
Land was slate for acquisition accounts for about 40 percent of the total area of Ludhiana district.
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The Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority (GLADA) was given to the government bodies under the Housing Department to move forward to collect land for the proposed urban property projects.
Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal announced that his party would not allow an inch of this land to be allowed to be allowed, even though it means that this movement means growing.
He Said The move was planned by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders of Delhi under the leadership of the party’s chief Arvind Kejriwal to facilitate large -scale corruption.
He said that he had visited Isapur, One of the villages of Ludhiana where land was to be taken by the government. He said, “The landowners told us that the cost of the land was about Rs 5 crore one acre and there was no way that the government could not match this amount while receiving the land,” he said.
Badal said that a big difference in the market value of the land and the compensation offered by the government will be made fertile land for large -scale corruption. “Do not want to be a part of the acquisition process, who will pay huge bribe to evacuate their land.
He said that he was receiving similar complaints from other areas in Ludhiana and will visit these villages in the coming days.
Badal said that even the process of acquisition was established at speed, Kejriwal appointed his former cabinet colleagues, Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain to oversee various projects in Punjab.
“Apart from these two, loyal persons towards the Delhi leadership of AAP have been held in the RERA (Real Estate Regulatory Authority), Punjab Larger Industrial Board and Punjab Pollution Control Board. Which means that whoever objects items for the acquisition process will not get any relief from these bodies.”
The leaders of the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh have already announced that they are protesting against the acquisition of land in Ludhiana.
Some details about Punjab’s largest land acquisition have been made public. On contact, Punjab’s Principal Secretary, Housing, Vikas Garg, were tight about the project.
“We are still working on the project. It is too early to say anything. Also, it would not be appropriate to share the details of the exercise,” he said.
However, government sources stated that land would not be acquired in the traditional way of acquisition, which included farmers compulsorily dividing with their land, but a voluntary practice which is a voluntary practice through “land pooling”.
An official involved in this process said, “The acquisition of such a large amount of land is not practical as the process of acquisition is full of social, cultural and legal obstacles. However, the land pooling in this case is the way forward,” an official involved in this process said, but who did not name.
In 2013, the land pooling scheme notified by the government offered to make stakeholders of land owners in urban development. The scheme gave cash compensation to the owner of the land with a part of the land developed as plots. The landlords can also opt for the government to go for “letters of intentions” which they could sell further.
Former state government official KBS Sidhu, who served in the Housing Department for many years Recently blog,
He said that direct acquisition can mean a shocking compensation bill for the government. He wrote, “The cost of the original per acre is unlikely to be less than 50 lakhs, at least the total amount of 12,000 crore outlay-Punjab government seems to be banking on the ground-pooling model as a strategic option for traditional acquisition,” he wrote.
He wrote, “The land-pool approach ignored this challenge by offering letters of landlords in exchange for immediate cash compensation, promising them to develop residential plots or commercial sites within the reorganized layout,” he wrote.
Sidhu said that the land pooling system achieved a dual purpose of reducing the immediate money pressure on the glidea, while the landowners gave an attractive and traditional stake in the urban form of the future.
He called the state’s move “bold initiative” of the state.
He said, “The decision to acquire 24,311 acres of land in Ludhiana is one of the most ambitious urban planning initiative in the recent memory,” he wrote, “He wrote,” He wrote, some state governments attempted land acquisition in “single stroke”. “
Sidhu, however, warned that the “sheer magnitude” of the Ludhiana proposal demanded “vigilant realism”.
(Edited by Zininia Ru Chaudhary)