??|?? October 21, 2012 ?? 08:36pm ??|
CHANDIGARH: Almost two months before his transfer, whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka had annoyed the Haryana government and shattered the dreams of land sharks who wanted to build houses with a view on Aravalli foothills.
In a move that irked the government and several realty dealers, the officer on August 21 had withdrawn the consolidation process of over 5,700 acres of land at Rozka-Gujar village on the foothills of Aravalli in Gurgaon district.
He cancelled the previous order on land consolidation of the village, observing that the process was adopted by vested interests ?to corner chunks of land?.
According to his observation, the Rozka-Gujar village was marked as uninhabited (be-chirag). Over 1,000 people owned the entire area of 5,744 acres in the village.
?Almost the entire village was purchased bypowerful business-politico-bureaucratic-police nexus with ostensibly no interest in agricultural activities. Some land transactions seemed benami on behalf of a few powerful politicians and bureaucrats,? Khemka, who was transferred from land consolidation department to Haryana Seed Development Corporation as managing director on October 11, had observed in his order.
The objective of land consolidation act is to help farmers pool together their fragmented agriculture plots and make maximum use of their resources. ?In this case, there was no land under agriculture activity and there was no fragmentation of land to consolidate. It was apparent that the scope of the consolidation act had been extended as a tool of partition,? Khemka said.
?The land in the village offered excellent potential for real estate sharks for constructing farm houses, resorts and residential zones after obtaining the change in land use permission from the department of town and country planning,? said Khemka.
According to the officer?s order, the maximum valuation ratio for consolidation in this village was fixed at 2:1 while in reality it could have been as high as 100:1.
?A 44-feet-wide road was proposed to be constructed from Gurgaon-Faridabad main road to Damdama lake in the village. Any non-forest land abutting this road would have huge market value as compared to the forest land and mining areas,? he added.
Cancelling the consolidation process, Khemka wrote, ?Some portion of this land was mined for stone, ordinary sand and silica sand prior to 2002. There were 50-60-feet-deep mining pits in certain pockets. Out of 5,744 acres, 4,798 acres were conserved as per different notifications under Punjab Land Preservation Act. In addition, some areas were also conserved as forest under the greening of Aravallis scheme. Thus, an estimated 85-90% of the total area under consolidation was conserved.?
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