Farmers in Dewas are upset with this scheme. Symbolic picture
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Dewas Development Authority has done this feat. Farmers came to know about it when the information was published in the newspaper. A ban has been imposed on the purchase and sale of land.
Deepak Vishwakarma, Naiduniya Dewas (Dewas News). Dewas Development Authority has done a strange thing. Without giving any information, it declared a residential and commercial scheme on the land of about 200 farmers. The matter did not stop here but the authority put forward the proposal of the scheme in the board meeting last month and within a few days it was published in the gazette under subsection 1 of section 50 of the Town and Country Investment Act.
Due to this, about 104 hectares of land in this area will not be sold or bought. Farmers are shocked when they get to know about this now. Seeing their land going away without their consent, farmers have started protesting strongly against the authority.
Farmers’ land will be acquired
The plan of the authority is to first acquire the land of the farmers under land pooling, but if they do not agree then the land will be acquired. The board meeting of the authority was held last month under the chairmanship of Collector and Chairman Dewas Development Authority Rishabh Gupta.
It was decided that a sector road and main road number-1 should be constructed parallel to the Indore-Bhopal bypass on the land of Shankargarh in the south-eastern area of Dewas and Dewas Senior (the name of the Patwari area from the princely era).
Decision to ban land purchase and sale
For this, it was decided to ban the sale and purchase of land on about 104 hectares of land. A new plan was also approved here, in which provision was made for a 24 meter sector road, 30 meter main road number-1 and an 18 meter wide road.
231 acres of land are coming under this scheme, which includes some government land as well as land in the name of Shri Vitthal Temple, Jimneshwar Mahadev and Shri Laxminarayan Temple. A gazette to this effect was published in the Gazette on 30 August.
I came to know about the information published in the newspaper
The farmers did not even have a hint about this scheme. They came to know about it only when the announcement of the scheme was published in a local newspaper on September 3. This information was also received by the farmers through internet media.
After this they got worried. At the end it has been published that no person shall use any type of land or make any change in the building or do any development within the area included in the scheme without the permission of the Director of Town and Country Investment from the date of publication of this information in the Gazette.
The farmers got furious with this information and went to the Collector’s office and complained to the CEO of the Authority, Abhishek Sharma. According to the information, the Authority is in the mood to take land from the farmers like land pooling. Under this, half of the land of the farmers will be developed and given to them.
Objections of farmers will be taken
The intention of the scheme has just been announced. Claims and objections of the farmers will be taken in a proper manner. The Claim and Objection Redressal Committee will hear the objections and resolve them. – Abhishek Sharma, CEO, Dewas Development Authority