Daily Bhaskar: Indore: Thursday, March 14, 2013.
The farmers
on Wednesday accused housing board officers of forgery in proposed housing
scheme at Palakhedi village.
Referring to
information obtained through RTI on proposed scheme, the farmers alleged that
the housing board had actually got approval for Smart Township Project in
Indore-Mhow-Pithampur region as part of Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor but
later on the officers fraudulently transferred the scheme to Palakhedi village.
Farmers'
representative Rahul Purohit said that housing board responding to four land
acquisition objections submitted by farmers, had replied that the land is being
acquired in Palakhedi village for the scheme on the basis of board meeting no
212 held on November 15, 2011.
The volunteer
activist claimed that information received under RTI revealed that the said
board meeting actually had assigned in-principle approval to Smart Township
project and not the Palakhedi project.
"The
project was meant for three villages--Umaria, Malhar and Kawti, while later on
the housing board deviated from the original project area and started the
project in village Palakhedi at Super Corridor," Purohit said.
Indore
collector Aakash Tripathi claimed that the said scheme of Smart Township is
entirely a different project. "The commissioner, housing board is
empowered to propose land acquisition for any project," said Tripathi.
However,
housing board commissioner Mukesh Chandra Gupta was not available for comments
on the contentious issue.
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