Punjab’s Nayagaon NAC Plan may be Altered

April 8, 2008	(Be the first to rate this story!)  Loading ...
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Days after the Department of Town and Country Planning, Punjab withdrew its public notice regarding the proposed master plan of the Nayagaon notified area committee (NAC), it is learnt that the consultant company — Jurong International Private Limited — has been told to alter the regional plan of the area.

The village Kansal had been demarcated as institutional area. This apparently did not suit the interests of the politicians. According to the regional plan, now withdrawn, a 100-feet wide road was demarcated to pass through the 50 acres of land owned by Tata Housing.

The firm had bought 20 acres of this land from the Punjab MLA Housing Society. According to the deal, with both Congress and Akali MLAs, Tata Housing promised to pay Rs 82.5 lakh per head besides a share in the Tata housing Complex for every kanal sold by the MLA.

Sources add that the minister for local bodies is very keen that the Tata housing project sees the light of the day as soon as possible. Also, villages Karoran and Nada, which would be part of the NAC, were left untouched by the Jurong in its regional plan because it is locked under the Punjab Land Preservation Act (PLPA).

Sources said the department of local bodies is extremely unhappy that a major part of the NAC has not been thrown open for development and the master plan only allows for development of village Kansal.

Interestingly, three pockets of village Kansal were demarcated in the plan as institutional areas. Politicians and bureaucrats largely own Land in one of the pockets. CMO sources pointed out that some part of the land was owned by a principal secretary to the Punjab CM.

He was reportedly instrumental in getting the plan withdrawn. A matter pertaining to the ownership of the land by VIPs in village Kandal is already pending in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

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