DMIC resettlement scheme gets nod, process to demarcate land to start soon

NOIDA: The rehabilitation and resettlement scheme for the families which will be forced to give up their properties to make way for the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) in Dadri, has been approved by the Meerut divisional commissioner.

With this development, the district administration is now a step closer in starting the process of marking out the land required in the four villages of Dadri for the ambitious project.

To lay down the tracks for the freight corridor between the national capital and Mumbai, DMIC Development Corporation requires some 84 hectares of land in the four villages of Dadri — Chithehra, Kathehra, Palla and Bodaki. A social impact assessment study was earlier commissioned to find out the statues of the families coming under the impact of the project.

According to the study by Gautam Buddha University, some 1,764 families will be impacted due to the project that is key to boosting economic activity in the Ghaziabad-Dadri-Noida investment region. Of them, 531 people own the land needed for the project while the remaining make their livelihoods through the said land parcels. Among them seven families from Kathehra, close to GT Road, will be severely hit.

The district administration has already held several public hearings to compile the objections and suggestions of the local residents. “The group of seven families has been awarded flats in Sector Omicron 1A of Greater Noida. Other formalities are also being completed before we start taking over the land,” said additional district magistrate (land acquisition) Balram Singh.

After compiling the responses of the affected population, the administration sent its report to the divisional commissioner of Meerut on September 9, officials said.

“We have got the approval from the commissioner to notify Section 17(2) under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013,” said an officer from Dadri sub-division. “We will publish our rehabilitation and resettlement plans for the affected families, following which we will start demarcating the land required for the project.”