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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | No serious efforts taken to convince farmers: Adhalrao on airport project by Manoj More

No serious efforts taken to convince farmers: Adhalrao on airport project by Manoj More

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published Published on Nov 28, 2010   modified Modified on Nov 28, 2010

MP Shivajirao Adhalrao-Patil on Sunday said the new Pune airport plan remained a non-starter because of lack of serious efforts on part of government officials to convince farmers about its need.

Adhalrao, considered an opponent of the airport plan in Chakan area, was at pains to say that he was not anti-development. “Rather than my stand, it would have been better if the officials had taken efforts to explain to farmers about the advantages and disadvantages of setting up the airport in the area. In the last three-four years, officials and political leaders preferred to make their grandiose plans known to people by sitting in five-star hotels. These officials and leaders are completely cut off from ground realities. They do not know anything about farmers and their life, but want to dictate terms to the community.”

Adhalrao said if the government was serious about bringing the airport project in the area, it should have at least taken the first step of holding meetings with the agitating farmers. “There is total confusion among farmers as to what will happen if their irrigated lands are taken away, the amount of compensation they would get, the size of the land that would be acquired and what the government proposes to do to make good their loss. Let the officials come forward and convince the farmers, I am sure something positive will come out.”

Divisional Commissioner Dilip Band and District Collector Chandrakant Dalvi said Adhalrao was “absolutely right” on this score. They said the MP was right; a meeting was held a year-and-a-half ago by the MIDC, which was then looking after the land acquisition process.

Band said since the government had handed over the airport project to the Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC), they were awaiting instructions from the company about holding a meeting. “We are hopeful that the MADC would soon start negotiations,” Dalvi said.

Band said the farmers were being offered Rs 30 lakh for a hectare (2.5 acre) of land. “This is much higher than the government’s ready reckoner,” he said, adding that the project would happen come what may.

However, Manik Kadam, president of Vimantal Virodhi Kruti Samiti, said the farmers in the seven villages — Waki, Shiroli, Pimpri, Chandoos, Koregaon, Kiwale and Wadgaon— would not part with their land. “5,000 farmers’ families would lose their livelihood. We won’t let this happen.”

He said what had irked farmers most was that the officials first demanded 2,300 acres of land, then 4,400, then 6500 and now 8,413 acres. “There is a confusion about what they are doing.”


The Indian Express, 29 November, 2010, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/no-serious-efforts-taken-to-convince-farmers-adhalrao-on-airport-project/717548/


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