Noida: The Noida Authority this week replied to the objections raised by farmhouse homeowners on its demolition drive, saying that the constructions are unlawful and should be eliminated inside per week – after which officers will take additional motion.
The authority, in its discover dated July 27, rebutted the objections and in addition threatened to get better the price of demolition if the farmhouse homeowners didn’t take away the constructions in and round Sector 135 on their very own. The homeowners, who had approached the Allahabad excessive courtroom over the matter final month, informed TOI on Friday that they may strategy the courtroom as soon as once more. They’d sought reduction from HC after the Authority, in its order issued on June 8, mentioned that any building on the Yamuna and Hindon floodplains can be demolished. Subsequently, the HC directed the petitioners on June 14 to file their objections with the Authority, which was tasked to take a call on these quickly. About 400 homeowners filed their objections.
In response, the Authority this week launched the 8 page-order that mentioned not one of the objections “had connected paperwork to show possession, and resulting from this, their (homeowners’) locus standi was not clear”.
It was additionally not clear which village the farmhouses belong to and who’re their homeowners, the order learn. The petitioners had mentioned the farmhouses had been constructed within the Nagla Nangli village, which was not notified by the Authority as an space to be developed and was not a part of the Grasp Plan 2021. On this case, the Authority mentioned the village had been notified in 1989 and was a part of the riverfront growth zone below its Grasp Plan 2031.
Farmhouse homeowners had additionally repeatedly mentioned their constructions haven’t been constructed on the floodplains.
On this rivalry, the Authority outlined the floodplain zone as a 5,000 hectare-area close to the Yamuna and Hindon rivers that was to be developed as a riverfront in keeping with the Grasp Plan 2031. “The maps had been wrongly handed by the district panchayat they usually have been cancelled now,” the order added. To the objection that the preliminary June 8 public discover by the Authority was unlawful and no alternative was given to the homeowners to be heard, the Authority mentioned discover boards have been erected at a number of places within the floodplains and these clearly state no building may be carried out right here.
Round 124 farmhouses within the space had been razed to the bottom throughout a number of rounds of demolition in Might-June this yr.
The Authority has declared about 1,000 farmhouses unlawful and mentioned these had been to be demolished.
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