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The Gurugram Metro Rail Limited (GMRL) has projected to privately get onshore for the Millennium City Centre-Cyber City metro corridor, bypassing the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, to debar procedural delays successful a bid to expedite the project.
The State’s Town and Country Planning Department had earlier this period notified an eight-step “Direct Land Purchase Policy” for the intent which included recognition of land, mounting up of a onshore acquisition committee, nationalist notification, fixing of compensation done dialog and outgo of compensation.
The metro corridor traverses a magnitude of 29.05 km successful Gurugram. The ₹5,452.72-crore task volition beryllium executed successful 2 phases – Phase 1 is of 15.05 km, and Phase 2 comprises 14 km – by the GMRL, a associated task of the Centre and the State government.
As per the January-8 notification, the alignment has been truthful finalised that large portion passes done authorities land. However, successful immoderate places the viaduct passes done backstage onshore and astatine immoderate locations precise adjacent to immoderate properties which volition beryllium required to beryllium demolished oregon acquired. In addition, the Metro depot, adjacent though planned successful authorities land, needs a tiny spot of backstage land.
Justifying the caller policy, the notification said it was formulated successful presumption of the “very lengthy process” of onshore acquisition done the Act. The argumentation would beryllium implemented for “very captious cases” of backstage onshore request affecting the commissioning of the project, said the notification.
In the lawsuit of immoderate proprietor refusing to merchantability the land, oregon raising objections oregon the proprietor not funny with the nonstop acquisition done negotiation, the respective onshore whitethorn beryllium acquired done onshore acquisition process arsenic per the Act 2013, the notification said.
The ground-breaking ceremonial for the task was held by Union Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal and Chief Minister Nayab Saini connected September 5 past year.
Union Minister of State for Planning and Gurugram Lok Sabha MP Rao Inderjit Singh had questioned the seven-year hold successful the project, saying that it was archetypal taken up by him successful a Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority gathering successful 2018.
