Haryana rehabilitation policy for land owners announced

For allotment of plots by Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) and Haryana State Industrial Infrastructural Development Corporation (HSIIDC), the allotment would be made to each co-sharer depending upon his share in the land acquired for HUDA and HSIIDC as per the scale mentioned in the entitlement. He said that plots would be offered if the land proposed to be acquired is under the ownership of oustees on the date of publication under section-4 of Land Acquisition Act and if 75 per cent or more of the total land owned by the owner in that Urban Estate is acquired.

Only one time benefit of this policy would be given to the land owners whose land is acquired in pockets at different times. In case, the land owner becomes entitled for a bigger size plot due to subsequent acquisition of his land then differential of the plot already allotted to him should be allowed to him, he said.

Goa govt scraps 12 SEZs

Panaji: Capping the row over special economic zones (SEZs) on New Year eve, the Goa Government on Monday decided to scrap all 12 exclusive economic zones and recommended to the Centre the denotification of three zones. “We have come to this conclusion after a lot of deliberations. We will write to the Centre to scrap eight proposals pending approval with them while we will not notify four which are already approved. About the rest three, we will take up the matter with Centre to denotify them,” Goa chief minister Digamber Kamat told reporters.

Kamat had a marathon deliberation with political parties and the Cabinet committee on infrastructure in the evening. Goa had proposals for 15 SEZs, of which seven were approved envisaging an investment of Rs 4,714.04 crore over the next five years.