Ghaziabad: Indirapuram extension, after being regarded as the next major real estate destination in Ghaziabad, has been peeled further in size.
It is estimated as a city spread across 240 hectares in 2004, it was trimmed up to 60 hectares, and now it will only be 12 hectares.
The reason is the inability of the development authority of the Ghaziabad (GDA) to acquire land from local farmers at a higher price than the prevailing circle rate.
And the development authority, which has so far managed to acquire 12 hectares of land, saying that the cities must be built only with this.
The master plan will also reflect this, officials said.
Asheesh Shivpuri, Head of GDA City Architects and Planners, said, “Since 2004 when it was conceived, the Indirapuram extension scheme has entered and exits one problem or another.
GDA has planned to get around 240 hectares of land from villagers where the city will come .
But even after more than one and a half decades and half, we have failed to obtain land and continue to seize the area.
“” The farmers from whom the land will be obtained not on the same page on the tariff and this problem even survives in court for several years , forcing us to reduce the size of the land from 240 hectares up to 80 hectares.
Even after that we face a sustainable land problem and have to scale again down to 60 hectares but even it doesn’t work, “he added.
The principal area behind farmers does not agree to part with the land is a matter of tariff.
“The circle circle that exists of this area is Rs 72,000 per square meter, but farmers have demanded Rs 1.40 lakh per square meter.
Financially it is not feasible to obtain the land needed at such a level.
We have also proposed a collection policy Land but also failed to cut ice with farmers, “Shivpuri said.
With all the exhausted options, the current authority will develop a group of housing groups only at 12 hectares of land that has been successfully obtained for now, according to city planners.
Sikdar Tyagi, a local resident who has a patch of land in the area, said, “The level of land in Indirapuram is quite high and in terms of property, this is what farmers have and they will clearly want a level compatible with market rates..”