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| Farmers aghast over allotment of contract to Ramky | | Land Acquisition for Semi Ring Road project | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 28: After handing over the Semi Ring Road project to National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), the NHAI management has finally allotted the contact to Ramky M/S Ramky Infrastructure Ltd.
The farmers are adamant not to give their land on the meager compensation. Sources say that this anti farmer policy adopted by Government and NHAI may lead to serious law and order situation in the villages where highway work will be taken up in the coming days.
Details available with Early Times reveal that National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has issued Letter of Award for construction of the proposed Srinagar Semi Ring Road / Bypass from Galander Pampore to Sumbal crossing on the Jammu-Srinagar highway (NH-1A). The Project would be implemented on Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Mode with construction period of 36 months, it said.The Project Cost is Rs 939.41. M/s Ramky Infrastructure Ltd is contractor of the project. The entire greenfield alignment has been proposed on the western side of Srinagar City to cater to/provide connectivity to the habitation on that side. As per Government plans the new highway will also provide smooth and easy traffic flow in and around Srinagar City.
Vehicles carrying heavy machinery to border/strategic areas of Baramula, Uri, Kupwara, Bandipora and Gandarbal will have an easier, congestion free passage along this route. The new Bypass will pass through 52 villages and 5 Districts (Pulwama, Budgam, Baramula, Srinagar & Bandipora).
The farmers affected by ring / semi ring road projects in Jammu / Kashmir valley are adamant to continue their struggle for pushing forward their demands for fair and legitimate compensation. The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) as J&K Government are not ready for private negotiations which have been held in past during land acquisition on Udhampur Srinagar Baramulla railway project. Sources say that NHAI has agreed to pay 4 times more compensation than market land in rural areas and 2 times in urban areas provided state of J&K adopts Central Land Acquisition Act of 2013, but has said no to private negotiations.
Affected people / farmers in Pulwama , Budgam , Srinagar and other areas allege that Government is putting a pressure on them to give away their land on very low price. This is creating a public outcry in Jammu as well as in Kashmir region. It is for the first time that farmers of Jammu / Kashmir have united against this move. Under the banner of Ring / Semi Ring Road Land Owners Welfare Committee a joint organization of affected farmers has been created few months back which has members from almost 8 districts of J&K from Kathua to Ganderbal. Sources told Early Times that villagers in Khanda B K Pora tehsil of Budgam booed few JCBs from the village when they began to start the work in the village on Tuesday. " We will not allow the construction company to go ahead with the work , nor will we allow them to acquire our land . We want fair compensation to be paid to us " said a farmer Muzaffar Ahmad from Khanda village.
Pertinent to mention that farmers whose land is going to be acquired for Semi Ring road connecting Pampore in South Kashmir with Manigam Ganderbal in North and Central Kashmir via Budgam came on roads in Srinagar several times demanding fair compensation for their land. The farmers as per reliable sources are planning for a massive protest in the coming days in Srinagar and Budgam.
The ruling BJP faced embarrassment in the Legislative Assembly when party MLA Sukhnandan Choudhary created a ruckus over 'forcible' acquisition of farmers' land for the proposed Ring Road project in the Jammu region. Choudhary trooped into the well of the House before staging a walkout over, what he alleged, the government's inhuman attitude by snatching the livelihood of over 1,500 farmers of the Jammu plains. As Choudhary, a former minister and two-time MLA from the Marh constituency, was raising slogans against the forcible acquisition of land, NC lawmaker Devendra Singh Rana seized the opportunity to taunt BJP ministers for bartering Jammu's interest to enjoy power by saying "Choudhary sahib aagay bado hum tumharay saath hain"
" We will not at all allow Govt and NHAI to snatch our ancestral land , we will fight for our rights and will seek legal recourse as well even if we will have to go to Supreme Court of India. I appeal farmers of affected villages to be ready for peaceful protests on this issue. We will soon announce our programme " said G A Paul President Semi Ring Road Land Owners Welfare Committee. |
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