PM Narendra Modi’s hometown residents transfer Gujarat HC towards land acquisition for venture
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By PTI
AHMEDABAD: Residents of Vadnagar in Gujarat’s Mehsana district have challenged within the excessive court docket the state authorities’s transfer to amass their land for a buffer zone for preservation of a few of the architectural constructions discovered within the city the place a large excavation venture is being carried out.
Eleven households from Vadnagar, the hometown of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have sought the Gujarat excessive court docket’s course to cancel the federal government’s notification permitting acquisition of land with out finishing up a social impression evaluation (SEA) examine for the buffer zone to be created for upkeep of architectural constructions.
The residents filed a plea towards the notification final week and the matter was taken up by a division bench of Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Ashutosh Shastri on Monday.
The bench later adjourned the listening to to March 11.
The counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the archaeological division is trying to purchase land parcels with round 30 homes constructed on them to create a buffer zone for preservation of architectural constructions found within the city by classifying it as a “special project”.
This is being accomplished with out the SEA examine as the federal government considers it a particular venture.
Section 10 (a) of the state’s modification to the Land Acquisition Act permits the federal government to amass land for such a particular venture with out the necessity for an SEA, in line with the plea.
The affected households have lived there for the final 50 years and the proposed buffer zone isn’t such a venture that may require land acquisition with out an SIA, the counsel maintained.
The petitioners steered the federal government ought to contemplate creating the buffer zone on a vacant house on the left aspect of the excavation website to spare the present homes of the affected households.
Massive excavation works are being carried out at Vadnagar and several other architectural websites have been found to date by the Archaeological Survey of India.
