Navi Mumbai: Seven of the eight villages who had opposed the compensation package offered for their lands to be acquired for the airport here, have formally rejected it at meetings held during the weekend, terming it not enough.
"We had a meeting of our village panchayat comprising three villages and all of us are united behind the demand for a better compensation package," said Mahendra Patil, sarpanch of Pargaon village and leader of the rebel villagers. Four villages of the Owala village panchayat had on Saturday rejected the deal agreed between the Antar Rashtriya Vimanthal Prakalpgrast Badhit Samiti, representing project-affected people, and the government.
Patil said people from Kundewahal village will hold their meet on the deal soon. He claimed that the two breakaway panchayats together account for about 500 of the 700 hectares that still need to be acquired for the airport. Cidco had said that it needs to only acquire some 270 acres more.
25/11/13 Sanjay Banerjee/Times of India
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"We had a meeting of our village panchayat comprising three villages and all of us are united behind the demand for a better compensation package," said Mahendra Patil, sarpanch of Pargaon village and leader of the rebel villagers. Four villages of the Owala village panchayat had on Saturday rejected the deal agreed between the Antar Rashtriya Vimanthal Prakalpgrast Badhit Samiti, representing project-affected people, and the government.
Patil said people from Kundewahal village will hold their meet on the deal soon. He claimed that the two breakaway panchayats together account for about 500 of the 700 hectares that still need to be acquired for the airport. Cidco had said that it needs to only acquire some 270 acres more.
25/11/13 Sanjay Banerjee/Times of India
