Abadi Land
The farmers in Gautam Budh Nagar, Noida have been protesting for 6 days now, against the Samajwadi Party government, for not granting approval to the policy of returning abadi land (land under habitation) to farmers. A group comprising 70 district villages are camping outside the Greater Noida Authority office. Cabinet deliberated on the policy that [...] Continue Reading »
The AP government has ordered to stop a suspected land grabbing attempt on the basis of a 200 year old gift deed. The land is said to be an ‘abadi’ land, a common property of the village. Anil Chandra Punetha, the principal secretary of registration, has stayed an order issued by former chief commissioner of [...] Continue Reading »
A notification for acquisition of the land (under Section 4 along with 17 (1) of the Land Acquisition Act) was issued on November 19, 2008, for planned industrial development of Dadri. Later, notification under Section 6 of the Act was issued on March 23, 2009. A division bench of the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday [...] Continue Reading »
About 45 farmers from Patwari, who had earlier decided not to collect the compensation, have now agreed to take the money and sign the affidavits. According to sources, this group of disgruntled farmers had filed petitions stating that Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) officials had not redressed their grievances regarding abadi land and other [...] Continue Reading »
The government has formed a committee headed by the district magistrate which has set Wednesday and Thursday for discussing the regularization question in Noida and Greater Noida villages, respectively, will target the nerve centres of the Noida farmers’ agitation on the first day. The Noida Authority chairman said regularization of populated areas in villages is [...] Continue Reading »
The Patwari farmers got what they wanted. It was their 600 hectares of land which was acquired by the builders and was given back as per the Allahabad High Court order to Greater Noida Authority and developers. For about 600 hectares in Patwari, the total compensation paid to farmers was over 450 crore. Yet they [...] Continue Reading »
