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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Land acquisition for Bullet Train hits hurdle in Gujarat -Aditi Raja & Kamal Saiyed

Land acquisition for Bullet Train hits hurdle in Gujarat -Aditi Raja & Kamal Saiyed

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published Published on Apr 10, 2018   modified Modified on Apr 10, 2018
-The Indian Express

Farmers and activists, who have jointly raised the issue with NHSRC say that they were given “no time” to prepare for the meetings nor are the railway officials presenting the report of impact assessment.

Vadodara/ Surat:
The National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRC), which has begun its meetings with “stakeholders” to assess the social impact and damage from the ambitious Ahmedabad-Mumbai “bullet train” project, is facing protests from farmers and environment activists over the lack of time and clarity in the discussions. Farmers and activists, who have jointly raised the issue with NHSRC say that they were given “no time” to prepare for the meetings nor are the railway officials presenting the report of impact assessment.

On Monday, a few days after its first meeting in Nadiad, the NHSRC officials held a similar meeting in Vadodara and Bharuch districts. A group of about 80 farmers and activists who gathered at the Gandhi Nagar Gruh in Vadodara demanded to see the report of the Social Impact Assessment (SIA) as well as an explanation on why the meetings were being held in a “disorganised” manner. Krishnakant, a member of the Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti, who was joined by farmers, who travelled from as far as Surat to attend the meeting in Vadodara, said, “The NHSRC is attempting an eyewash by calling it a stakeholders’ meeting. All they are trying to do is to record that they had held a meeting. In reality, there is no publicity of the meeting so that farmers can attend. All they did was print a small newspaper advertisement in a single newspaper that carried just three sentences, one day before the meeting was scheduled. We have made representations and asked them to hold fair discussions and allow farmers to attend the meetings.”

Ramesh Patel, a farmer who travelled from Surat to Vadodara to attend the meeting, said that he could not attend the Surat meeting on Sunday evening as he did not know about it. Patel said, “I travelled all the way to Vadodara as I had missed the meeting in Surat on Sunday evening. No information was circulated about it. This is unfair. The discussion is supposed to be about our opinions and understanding the project but officials are directly coming to the point of compensation and telling us that it will be decided by the collectors as per the jantri rate. We all know that the market value of our lands is much higher than the jantri rates that the government will offer. For every infrastructure project, it is the farmers who get a raw deal.”

Members of the Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti as well as Khedut Samaj organisations of central and south Gujarat have submitted a joint memorandum to district collectors of affected districts as well as the chairman of the NHSRC, seeking cancellation of such “sudden” meetings and demanded a fresh consultation with the stakeholders. “We are shocked that at the shortest possible notice period, i.e., one day, as well as by its size and place in the newspaper (of the announcement of the meeting). It is clear that the intent of the notice is not to well-publicise the public consultation for stakeholders, but to merely dispense with a formality. In practical terms, the attempt has been to ensure that the ‘notice’ is not noticed by stakeholders. This is not only unfair, immoral, open to legal challenge, but also displays a shocking state of affairs,” the memorandum stated.

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The Indian Express, 10 April, 2018, http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/developing-story-land-acquisition-for-bullet-train-hits-first-hurdle-5130934/


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