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Acquiring land, quietly, State Begins Haldia Purchases, May Face Flak For Lack Of TransparencyBy Unregistered Visitors, Section Real Estate
Nandigram hasn't halted land acquisition in neighbouring Haldia. Neither has it stopped the government from using the West Bengal Industrial Infrastructure (WBIIDC) Act, 1974, that allows land to be taken over for public purpose within 15 days.
Acquisition of land is quietly under way in rural areas of Haldia Municipality under this Act. Compensation has been paid to 100 families of two mouzas in the Chakdwip-Andulia area. Final settlement notices, or mimansha, have been sent to hundreds of families asking them to collect their cheques by August 8. The last notice was served after the Nandigram-stung government announced it would no longer apply the WBIIDC Act in the state. When asked, commerce and industry minister Nirupam Sen refused to comment. "So far as I know, the acquisition is being made on the basis of a notification in 2006. I have to check it." But this is only partly true. The government broke its promise and issued fresh notices under the Act for 17 acres at Khanjanchawk after the Nandigram carnage of March 14. In fact, a notice under Section 27(2) of the Act was issued by the collector just a few days ago. The government aims to acquire 359.24 acres in Haldia in seven phases. The primary price for each acre has been fixed at Rs 11 lakh plus a 10% solatium to land-loser families, a compensation package more or less similar to that in Singur.
And, like in Nandigram and Singur, the notice to individual landholders doesn't specify the public purpose -- whether it is for infrastructure, industry or for that matter for the chemical hub. "Our function is to acquire land and hand it over to Haldia Development Authority, the requiring body, which will decide on its utilisation," said additional DM (Haldia) Sreekumar Tarafdar.
The lack of transparency is likely to fuel further political tension at a time chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is trying to work out a consensus on the industrial roadmap. The Opposition and Left Front partners have expressed concern over the proposed chemical hub in Haldia. Left leaders fear the government is silently doing groundwork for the purpose. Trinamul chief Mamata Banerjee also referred to such a notice last week. Armed with copies of mimansha issued on July 27, 2007, leaders of the Haldia mahajot, including Congress, Trinamul and Siddiqullah Chowdhury's Party for Democratic Conference of India, submitted a memorandum to the additional DM on Friday, demanding the government state why it acquired the land. The Opposition is not happy with the compensation package and wants the government to pay the cumulative amount of the land price in the next 10 years, besides a job to land-losers. By:- TOI
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