Gurgaon: The government Haryana has attracted a two-year-old plan to consolidate 3,000 hectares in the village of Kot in Aravalis and distribute it to local residents to farm after being found that more than 2,500 hectares fell under the category “Gair Mumkin Pahas.”, Protected land where All types of construction or cutting trees are prohibited.
Environmental lovers, who supported the move, said this was the fourth time in the last decade that the consolidation of small spots in the area had been stopped.
Under the consolidated law, the Haryana Government collects small plots of land together and then allocates it to the villagers to farm.
However, it is often seen that the villagers sell this plot to private builders, who develop farms in the woodland area.
The latest government proposal to consolidate Tanah Kot Village in February 2019.
The income department agrees that having land falling under the category of “Gair Mumkin Pahar” has been allocated to the villagers, it can “misinformation of influential buyers”.
“The purpose of the consolidation law is to spill land for the progress of agriculture and general purpose villagers.
The purpose of this action will be defeated in the case of land under ‘Gair Mumkin Mumkin’ put in the scheme.
So, the plan has been drawn,” said Amna Tasneem , Director, ownership consolidation.
Environmental lovers show that the hills of the Kot village fall in the Manganese Bani buffer zone, protected area.
“This is the fourth time the consolidation process in the Kot village has been stopped on the grounds that the move can be misused.
Let’s hope this is the last period,” Chetan Agarwal, a forest analyst.
Sarvadaman Oberoi, an environmentalist, registered several examples.
“The consolidated scheme has been misused in Aravali villages such as Mangar, Bandhwari, Ankhir and Mewla Maharajpur to create a private plot in the forest.
It must be rolled back.” Not only environmental lovers, villagers also support the government to pull the plan.
“The government plans to finally privatize all joint land in villages,” said Kesar Singh, Kot Sarpanch Mungdresh Devi’s husband.
The villagers, he added, has approached the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and was written to the minister’s chairman and the movement center to consolidate the land together.
According to activists, this is the fourth effort since 2011 to consolidate village land together.