Youth Congress to oppose govt'sland buy in Digha
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14/07/2011
PATNA: State Youth Congress president Lalan Kumar on Wednesday announced that his organization would oppose any land acquisition move by the state government in Digha-Rajivnagar-Nepalinagar localities in the state capital. A Youth Congress delegation would also meet the governor to apprise him of the situation in the three localities.
Addressing a press conference here, Kumar and Digha Youth Congress president Shashi Ranjan said that Youth Congress would observe Digha bandh sometime in August. They said that agitation against land acquisition had been going on since 1974 in Digha. In 1994, a farmer had lost his life in police firing, while in 2008 one Janki Mahato had consumed poison as he feared that he might lose his land, the Youth Congress leaders said.
Both the leaders charged the NDA with taking political mileage out of the issue since 1994. They said that NDA leaders including Nitish Kumar had promised that 1024.52 acres of acquired land would be released. "But the NDA government has failed to take any decision over the issue," they said and charged the Nitish Kumar government with harassing the farmers of Digha.
They demanded that the state government pay market prices for the acquired land, and not government rates. They also urged the state government to provide employment to one member of each family affected by land acquisition.
Both the leaders said that the maps of several houses in the three aforesaid areas had not been approved by the then Patna Regional Development Authority (PRDA). "In many cases, the state government allows people to get maps of their houses approved by paying the penalty. In Digha also, the state government should allow the residents, who have constructed their houses without getting their maps approved, to pay penalty and get their maps approved," both the leaders said. They said that the government has verbally announced that this would be allowed, but no written order has been issued so far, they said.
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