Farmers
Builders, who were allotted land by the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA), have stopped all construction work in Sahberi and the Authority officials pulled down whatever hoardings, property advertisements etc remained there. The authority has begun the process of returning land to farmers. Developers affected by the Sahberi order have also been given the [...] Continue Reading »
The final hearing of the acquisition of land in Greater Noida Extension including Patwari where the notifications were quashed by the division bench of Allahabad High Court has arrived. The hearing will be on July 26. A bench of the court deferred till July 26 hearing in about two dozen other writ petitions filed on [...] 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 »
The Chakrapani Vasahat, located along the Nashik-Pune highway, is a heavily populated area where migrant workers have constructed houses on plots measuring 500 to 2,000 sq ft. Radhabai Kondiba Devkar, an 80-year-old farmer, said, “Our forefathers had agricultural land in the Bopkhel village. The defence authorities acquired it when the Ammunition Factory of Khadki was [...] Continue Reading »
