Noida farmers win much more than compensation

Delhi/NCR
Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) in its 51st board meeting took several decisions to settle long-pending farmers’ issues that are expected to speed up development. Agitations and litigations by farmers over the past two years had hampered development projects in the area.

YEIDA CEO P C Gupta said, “Apart from additional compensation, we’ve decided on a process to regularize abadis, for which we’d already formed a committee. It, however, could not address the issue so far because of glitches. But under new rules, absent members can participate by proxy in committee meetings. This will speed up the process,” Gupta said.

Another condition incorporated by the board for all land acquisition in the future is that schools and educational institutes set up on such land will have to earmark 10% seats for children of locals who lose their land. “This quota won’t apply if there’s a competitive qualifying exam for the seat, as, say, in case of an engineering seat,” said Gupta.

He added that the authority plans to reserve 10% of 3rd and 4th grade jobs in factories for children of farmers whose lands are acquired for the industries. “In such cases, educational qualification of an applicant will get priority,” said Gupta, adding that the authority will invest Rs eight crore to set up an ITI (industrial training institute) for farmers’ children in Mirzapur. The number of ITIs will be increased phasewise, he further said.

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