Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 7: Senior Congress leader Satish Sharma has urged upon the J&K authorities to provide fair and adequate compensation to the people affected with road widening project in Akhnoor Bypass and Daksal area.
Addressing a meeting organised by the Block Congress Committee in Akhnoor today regarding the compensation of land to people affected with the ongoing road widening project from Akhnoor Bypass to Daskal Road and also from old Akhnoor bridge to Punnu Chowk, Satish urged the Government and NHAI to clear the doubts in the minds of the people whose land is being acquired for the road widening project as there is no clarity from where the road & bridges associated with the widening will be built which is causing a lot of panic amongst the people of the area.
He said many houses and shops are also getting affected and the people should be told at the earliest the proposed map of the road so that they can plan accordingly and do the needful if any of their construction is coming in the way of proposed road. Satish demanded that the compensation to the affected people whose land will be acquired should be given as per the Right to Fair Compensation & Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation & Resettlement Act, 2013 passed by the then Congress Government to give fair compensation to the owners of land which is acquired by the Government for development works.
He demanded that as per the Act, the affected people should be given four times the market price of land acquired. Also those lands which are adjoining to the existing national highway should come under commercial category and appropriate compensation should be given as per the commercial market value of the land. He said that more than a thousand shops are getting affected & the shop owners & their families will have to lose their source of earning. He also demanded adequate compensation for the people whose land has been acquired under Ring Road project.
Harbhajan Singh Block president, Ankush Gupta, Sanjeev Bhagat, Madan Lal (Ex-sarpanch) Mohan Lal, Om Prakash and Rishi Kumar also spoke on the occasion.
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