Patna: Land acquisition for 2.8km-long liner strip to connect pathway Patna-Dobhi (NH-83) has become a bone of dispute between the National Highway Authority (NHAI) and the state government as the price has increased from RS 176 Crore to around Rs 580 Crore for years.
The Patna High Court on Friday directed both parties to resolve the problem.
NHAI has refused to pay additional land fees to be obtained by the request that he has deposited the RS176 Crore into a competent bank procurement bank account (Cala) in 2012-13 and told the land for acquisition, but the government state could not obtain land and, as instead, increase the circle rate.
Now, farmers demand land prices according to new circle levels.
Land strip comes from Saristabad to Nathupur Village, from where the zero Patna-style-Dobhi point starts.
This stretch is the previous section of the Patna-Coilwar-Bhojpur-Buxar NH project and planned to serve as a public link.
For Patna-Style-Dobhi NH-83.
Representing NHAI, senior adviser SD Sanjay along with Anshay Bahadur Mathur who was submitted before the High Court that the state must bear the additional costs that accused the land not obtained from the increase in time on time.
Additional Advocacy Country General Anjani Kumar proposed that it was a central agent who left the acquisition and state process irresponsible to pay for the soil price increase.
The bench of the Head of Justice of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice S Kumar, who monitored all NH projects in the state, directed the Secretary of the Head of State to hold all stakeholder meetings to resolve problems and think of sharing prices that increased and state government.
The bench gave a two-week secretary to submit counter-statements that judge the developments made to resolve the problem after the meeting.
The bench also directed the authorities concerned that the money was channeled by NHAI because it obtained land transferred to district judges or Bank Magistrate District accounts from Cala accounts.
Part of the stretch was obtained eight years ago when the circle level was lacking.
Aag Kumar also told the court that the state government would disburse compensation to landowners against their land for all NH projects.
The court leads that if the country fails to fulfill the timeline, it must deposit the remaining number into the Bank or DM bank account account.
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The court also directed more than a dozen DM to stay present on July 28 to hear land acquisition related to the Varanasi-Aurangabad section of the NH-2, the Greenfield NH project that was important to pass Patna and several other districts in Bihar.
At least 38 NH-project problems were taken by bench one after another and the direction needed was passed to them to speed up construction work.