MUMBAI: The state cabinet on Sunday finally put its seal on the record compensation package that it will offer to villagers to acquire their land for the development of the Navi Mumbai international airport. TOI had first reported the offer on August 13 last year.
Calling it "a much better offer than what the residents could get under the new central law on land acquisition", the state said the villagers would get back a plot measuring 22.5% of their original land, fully developed and in a non-Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ), right next to the airport; they will also get an extra floor space index (FSI) of 2. The worth of the returned land—the original plots are in CRZ—will translate into Rs 16 crore per hectare. With this offer, which includes several other perks, the state expects to win over the six villages, which have been holding back their land as they were unhappy with the compensation earlier offered to them.
Those who do not accept the state government's package will be compensated according to the new Land Acquisition Act, which came into force in January. The central law allows 20% of the acquired land to be returned to project-affected persons. Kopar residents, whose land has been acquired for a landfill site, will not be compensated with the state package but for them, a separate deal will be worked out. The Konkan divisional commissioner will decide on it.
With the cabinet's approval, the state has cleared a major hurdle to the construction of the airport. "This has come at the right time. If the compensation was not decided in the next three months, we would have had to begin the process of acquisition all over again under the new law and the project would have been as good as doomed," said a source, maintaining that the new package was "many times better" than what the central law offered.
The cost of developing the land, which will be returned to villagers, will be borne by CIDCO, which is the developing agency of the new airport; under the central law, the cost is supposed to be borne by the affected persons themselves. Besides, those with tenements will be provided with houses three times the size. The compensatory land will be offered in a new township called, Pushpak Nagar, to be built along the Mumbai-Pune bypass near Panvel .The CIDCO has also been conducting various job-oriented courses for the PAPs.
"A joint land survey is currently underway and the compensation will be awarded within the next two to three months. The new city is already being developed where the PAPs will be shifted within a year," said Sanjay Bhatia, managing director, CIDCO.
Calling it "a much better offer than what the residents could get under the new central law on land acquisition", the state said the villagers would get back a plot measuring 22.5% of their original land, fully developed and in a non-Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ), right next to the airport; they will also get an extra floor space index (FSI) of 2. The worth of the returned land—the original plots are in CRZ—will translate into Rs 16 crore per hectare. With this offer, which includes several other perks, the state expects to win over the six villages, which have been holding back their land as they were unhappy with the compensation earlier offered to them.
Those who do not accept the state government's package will be compensated according to the new Land Acquisition Act, which came into force in January. The central law allows 20% of the acquired land to be returned to project-affected persons. Kopar residents, whose land has been acquired for a landfill site, will not be compensated with the state package but for them, a separate deal will be worked out. The Konkan divisional commissioner will decide on it.
With the cabinet's approval, the state has cleared a major hurdle to the construction of the airport. "This has come at the right time. If the compensation was not decided in the next three months, we would have had to begin the process of acquisition all over again under the new law and the project would have been as good as doomed," said a source, maintaining that the new package was "many times better" than what the central law offered.
The cost of developing the land, which will be returned to villagers, will be borne by CIDCO, which is the developing agency of the new airport; under the central law, the cost is supposed to be borne by the affected persons themselves. Besides, those with tenements will be provided with houses three times the size. The compensatory land will be offered in a new township called, Pushpak Nagar, to be built along the Mumbai-Pune bypass near Panvel .The CIDCO has also been conducting various job-oriented courses for the PAPs.
"A joint land survey is currently underway and the compensation will be awarded within the next two to three months. The new city is already being developed where the PAPs will be shifted within a year," said Sanjay Bhatia, managing director, CIDCO.
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