40 farmers received compensation for their acquired land for Noida Intl. Airport
Saurabh Kumar
Greater Noida (23/4/2019) :
Nearly a week after the Allahabad high court dismissed a bunch of petitions by farmers seeking higher compensation for their land, the Gautam Budh Nagar administration has started giving compensation for the land to be acquired for proposed Noida International Airport. On Monday a total of 7 crore rupees were transferred to respective bank accounts of 40 landowners from Ranhera and Parohi villages.
ADM Land Balram Singh (land acquisition) Gautam Budh Nagar said, “farmers had received their compensation and now we will start taking possession of earmarked land from farmers”.
District magistrate BN Singh said, “the compensation constitutes of the land price and rehabilitation and resettlement benefits”.
The administration needs to acquire 1239.14 hectares from 3,000 farmers’ families in the first phase of the airport project. The estimated budget for the Jewar airport project is between ₹15,000 crore and ₹20,000 crore. The project is expected to be operational by 2022-2023. The entire project needs around 5,000 hectares of land.
