??|?? October 13, 2012 ?? 12:12pm ??|
LUCKNOW: Nearly a year after the Allahabad High Court directed the UP government to institute an inquiry into the anomalies in the acquisition of land in Greater Noida, a section of residents of the area alleged that the state government has failed to comply with the court?s directives.
Alleging that some officials of the government acted in collusion with the builder lobby, the residents also submitted a five-point memorandum to the chief secretary, infrastructure and industrial development commissioner among others, demanding that the entire process of allotment of land for group housing plots should be done through e-tendering or a transparent auction mechanism. Among other demands, the Greather Noida residents have called for the scrapping of the practice of allotting the land on eight-year installment basis to ?profit-making? builders, mandating all projects be completed in three to four years, and, scrapping the practice of allotting group housing plots under consortiums to smaller residential projects.
Reacting to the allegations, infrastructure and industrial development commissioner Anil Kumar Gupta said: An inquiry has been made into the Greater Noida land acquisition case. I have travelled to the region myself to assess the situation. The findings of the inquiry have been shared with the government and the file has only come back to me a few days ago. Now, it is up to the department concerned to take action against the persons who have been indicted in the report.?
Conducted in May 2012, the findings of the inquiry suggested that several chairmen and CEOs of Greater Noida Authority, appointed between 2002 and 2011, including senior IAS officials, colluded with the builder lobby to acquire land for industrial use, but changed the land use to ?residential? later. Among the several officials named in the process was former bureaucrat Mohinder Singh, believed to be close to the former BSP regime, but who has now retired from service. Gupta conducted the inquiry on the directives the Allahabad High Court, in 2011, ordered an inquiry into the anomalous allotment of land, among other irregularities, by the Noida and Greater Noida authorities.
Though the state government had then turned down a request for a CBI enquiry into the matter, top-level government officials were deputed to conduct an inquiry and report the matter. The probe was started by senior IAS officer Sanjay Agarwal but eventually handed over to Gupta.
In May, Income Tax department officials carried out searches at the offices and residences of three general managers (GMs) of the Greater Noida Authority and a chief finance officer of the Noida Authority. These officers were said to be close to prominent people in the BSP government. The income tax department had also raided some establishments of four builders against whom allegations of undue clearances to projects, land allotments, tenders and payment to builders were levelled. The raids were said to have been conducted following complaints of irregularities in projects worth several crores. Following these allegations, the court also denotified the land in eight of the 11 villages in the area. Cases in more than 40 villages are still pending in court.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Govt-must-bring-white-paper-on-land-acquisition-scam-Greater-Noida-residents/articleshow/16791124.cms
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