Chandigarh: The Karnal airport project, recently announced under the regional connectivity scheme of the Central Government, may run into rough weather with farmers up in arms against the land acquisition for the project.
In the eye of the storm is the recent notification to acquire 280 acres of land in Karnal to extend the runway of the proposed airport under the new Direct Purchase Policy of the Haryana Government which the farmers alleged was “discriminatory and illogical”.
“The state government’s land acquisition policy is discriminatory and unfair to the farmers, especially from Kalvehedi and Neval villages, whose land the state government intended to acquire for the airport,” alleged Inderpreet Singh, a farmer from Kalvehadi.
Farmers of Kalvehedi village are virtually being forced for part with their land through the government-appointed land aggregators under the new policy while Section 26 of the Land Acquisition Act made it mandatory for the state government to pay collector rates for the acquired land. “The collector rates in neighbouring Budha Khera, Chapra Khera and Phusgarh villages is over Rs 1 crore per acre,” said another farmer Bhavneet Singh Kalyan.
While the BJP-ruled states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa were paying the compensation four times the market rate to the farmers for the acquired land, the Haryana Government was giving a raw deal to the farmers as far as compensation for the acquired land was concerned, alleged Inderpreet Singh.
25/05/18 Pradeep Sharma/Tribune
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In the eye of the storm is the recent notification to acquire 280 acres of land in Karnal to extend the runway of the proposed airport under the new Direct Purchase Policy of the Haryana Government which the farmers alleged was “discriminatory and illogical”.
“The state government’s land acquisition policy is discriminatory and unfair to the farmers, especially from Kalvehedi and Neval villages, whose land the state government intended to acquire for the airport,” alleged Inderpreet Singh, a farmer from Kalvehadi.
Farmers of Kalvehedi village are virtually being forced for part with their land through the government-appointed land aggregators under the new policy while Section 26 of the Land Acquisition Act made it mandatory for the state government to pay collector rates for the acquired land. “The collector rates in neighbouring Budha Khera, Chapra Khera and Phusgarh villages is over Rs 1 crore per acre,” said another farmer Bhavneet Singh Kalyan.
While the BJP-ruled states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa were paying the compensation four times the market rate to the farmers for the acquired land, the Haryana Government was giving a raw deal to the farmers as far as compensation for the acquired land was concerned, alleged Inderpreet Singh.
25/05/18 Pradeep Sharma/Tribune
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