A decade gone, GDA frees Rs 800cr land for Indirapuram Extension project

Time of India

4 days ago

Ghaziabad: Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) recently freed 10 hectares of its land worth Rs 800 crore in Kanawni in Indirapuram. The land parcel was encroached upon for more than 10 years, where illegal shanties and hutments came up.
A GDA official said the land parcel will be clubbed with the Indirapuram Extension scheme — covering an area of 34 hectares — where the development authority is planning a new township. "Last week, GDA carried out a major anti-encroachment drive in Kanawni in Indirapuram, in which the land was reclaimed. Now the development authority has started erecting pillars and the area has been fenced to secure it," the official said.
The official said GDA now plans a request for proposal for the said land parcel and a detailed project report will be made.
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The Indirapuram Extension scheme was launched in 2004, involving about 92 hectares of land in Mahiuddinpur Kanawani village, for which compensation to farmers was given at the rate of Rs 1100/sqm.
In 2005, about 225 farmers who owned 35 hectares of land got a stay from Allahabad high court over enhanced compensation, as a result of which GDA was not able to take the parcel of land into its possession, and since then, the project has remained in a state of limbo.
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The matter got further compounded in 2014 when the Land Acquisition Act 2014 came into force, which decreed that landowners be given compensation four times the market value. The project became financially untenable for GDA due to the new land acquisition law, so in 2019, GDA wrote to the state govt seeking to de-notify the remaining 35 hectares of land.
But GDA, on 20 May 2022, received a shot in its arm in the form of a Supreme Court order involving the Ayodhya Development Authority.
The case was similar with respect to GDA's Indirapuram Extension housing scheme.
The court, in its May 2022 order, said that any issue pertaining to land compensation that was initiated before the Land Acquisition Act 2014 came into existence should be dealt with the land rates prevailing prior to 2014, irrespective of the fact whether the land could be acquired or not.
Following the order, GDA is already developing the said piece of land. As per the plan, out of 34 hectares of land, 15,800 sqm of land has been placed under the residential head and 1,500 sqm under the commercial head.