Land acquisition finished for bullet teach venture except for Godrej & Boyce plot: Maha executive to HC

By means of PTI

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra govt on Monday knowledgeable the Bombay Prime Court docket that the land acquisition procedure on all the line of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet teach venture has been finished except for the plot owned via Godrej & Boyce Production Co Ltd at suburban Vikhroli.

The state govt and the corporate are embroiled in a prison dispute since 2019 over the purchase of the company-owned land in Vikhroli for the bullet teach venture.

Of the full 508.17 km of rail observe between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, about 21 km is to be underground.

One of the most access issues to the underground tunnel falls at the land at Vikhroli (owned via Godrej).

The corporate had final month filed a petition difficult an order handed via the Maharashtra govt on September 15 awarding repayment to it for land acquisition for the bullet teach venture.

On Monday, a department bench of Justices R D Dhanuka and S G Dige stated it might start listening to at the petition on December 5.

Recommend Basic Ashutosh Kumbhakoni, showing for the state govt, stated the subject used to be pressing because the venture is being held up.

“All of the land required for the venture is from Mumbai to Ahmedabad. All of the acquisition of land has been finished except for for this patch (owned via Godrej),” Kumbhakoni stated.

He sought that the courtroom start listening to at the plea on the earliest, because the state govt has finished all formalities for acquisition and now simplest taking ownership of the land stays.

Godrej’s land used to be the one portion which used to be no longer within the state’s ownership, and the entire different land has already been got, Kumbhakoni stated.

On Monday, the corporate additionally filed an software in the hunt for disclosures from the state govt of all paperwork and information it had relied upon whilst deciding which plot of land used to be easiest appropriate to be got for the venture.

Previous, the state govt and the Nationwide Prime-Pace Rail Company Ltd (NHSRCL) had claimed that Godrej & Boyce used to be growing needless hurdles and impediments within the land acquisition procedure and used to be therefore delaying the venture.

This allegation used to be refuted via the corporate, which claimed that the land acquisition complaints had been “unlawful and dangerous in regulation.”

This will be the nation’s first bullet teach and would run at a most pace of Rs 350 lm according to hour, masking the stretch between the 2 towns in below 3 hours from the standard seven.

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra govt on Monday knowledgeable the Bombay Prime Court docket that the land acquisition procedure on all the line of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet teach venture has been finished except for the plot owned via Godrej & Boyce Production Co Ltd at suburban Vikhroli.

The state govt and the corporate are embroiled in a prison dispute since 2019 over the purchase of the company-owned land in Vikhroli for the bullet teach venture.

Of the full 508.17 km of rail observe between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, about 21 km is to be underground.

One of the most access issues to the underground tunnel falls at the land at Vikhroli (owned via Godrej).

The corporate had final month filed a petition difficult an order handed via the Maharashtra govt on September 15 awarding repayment to it for land acquisition for the bullet teach venture.

On Monday, a department bench of Justices R D Dhanuka and S G Dige stated it might start listening to at the petition on December 5.

Recommend Basic Ashutosh Kumbhakoni, showing for the state govt, stated the subject used to be pressing because the venture is being held up.

“All of the land required for the venture is from Mumbai to Ahmedabad. All of the acquisition of land has been finished except for for this patch (owned via Godrej),” Kumbhakoni stated.

He sought that the courtroom start listening to at the plea on the earliest, because the state govt has finished all formalities for acquisition and now simplest taking ownership of the land stays.

Godrej’s land used to be the one portion which used to be no longer within the state’s ownership, and the entire different land has already been got, Kumbhakoni stated.

On Monday, the corporate additionally filed an software in the hunt for disclosures from the state govt of all paperwork and information it had relied upon whilst deciding which plot of land used to be easiest appropriate to be got for the venture.

Previous, the state govt and the Nationwide Prime-Pace Rail Company Ltd (NHSRCL) had claimed that Godrej & Boyce used to be growing needless hurdles and impediments within the land acquisition procedure and used to be therefore delaying the venture.

This allegation used to be refuted via the corporate, which claimed that the land acquisition complaints had been “unlawful and dangerous in regulation.”

This will be the nation’s first bullet teach and would run at a most pace of Rs 350 lm according to hour, masking the stretch between the 2 towns in below 3 hours from the standard seven.