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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Smart City is looming scam: Ram Guha -Shivani Saxena

Smart City is looming scam: Ram Guha -Shivani Saxena

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published Published on Jan 18, 2016   modified Modified on Jan 18, 2016
-The Times of India

DEHRADUN: Historian Ramachandra Guha, the author of The Unquiet Woods, a chronicle of the Chipko movement and its continuing relevance, threw his weight behind protesters seeking that the state government desist from taking over tea gardens in Dehradun for the Smart City project. He tweeted: "A looming land scam in the name of a 'Smart City' in my home town, Dehradun". He told TOI that the proposal was nothing but a "nexus between land mafia and politicians".

The internet has been rife with petitions, posts and comments urging the state government to refrain from acquiring tea gardens for the Smart City project. There is also a YouTube video that urges viewers to support the movement to save the city's tea gardens. Months ago, the state government proposed that a Smart City could come up on land acquired from the over 2,000-acre tea gardens in the state capital.

Guha, whose father worked with the Forest Research Institute, told TOI, "I was born in Dehradun and stayed there till I was 25 years old. I have a deep attachment to the Valley. I remember cycling from FRI to the clock tower. There used to be litchi orchards across the Valley, which are now nowhere to be seen!"

He said he continues to visit Dehradun, and was in the city even three months ago. "The whole character of the Valley has changed. Making a Smart City by uprooting the tea gardens is a bad idea. I support any peaceful and non-violent means of bringing a halt to that move, which is a nexus between the land mafia and politicians."

Bollywood singer Jubin Nautiyal, who grew up in Dehradun and acquired fame for having lent his voice to the song "Zindagi kuch toh bata" in Bajrangi Bhaijaan, too signed a petition against the proposed Smart City on social media and shared it on his Facebook page, saying, "I am signing this petition because I want to save my city. I love Dehradun."

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The Times of India, 14 January, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/Smart-City-is-looming-scam-Ram-Guha/articleshow/50582345.cms


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