Noida Authority Offers Land to Farmers for Successful Rehabilitation

A farmer is sanctioned to receive 5% of the total land acquired for residential use as per the land allotment rules. Hundreds of farmers claimed that they have not received plots for their usage yet.

On Sunday, the officials said that the Noida authority has decided to cancel its plan to allocate a group housing plot to realtors in Sector 146, instead of choosing to assign the land to farmers for their rehabilitation.

According to the law, the farmers are allotted their land for the city’s well-planned development and deserved rehabilitation.

The officials connected with the issue said adding that farmers requested residential plots, but the authority was unable to provide them because of the lack of adequate land.

Ritu Maheshwari, CEO of the Noida Authority said that we have decided not to allocate 12 hectares of group housing land because we will divide this land into residential plots for the entitled farmers. We have directed the land department to supervise a thorough examination of the applications submitted by the farmers. Once the eligibility of the farmers has been finalized, we will provide the residential plots in accordance with the established process.

As per the land allotment rules, a farmer is sanctioned to receive 5% of the total land acquired for residential use. Hundreds of farmers claim that they have not received the plots yet for their usage.

Maheshwari said, “Under the policy, the authority provides 5% residential plots either in the farmer’s village or within a 3 km radius of the village. If there is no land availability in a specific village or within a 3 km radius, we will provide the plot in the nearest village. If a farmer doesn’t fulfil these eligibility requirements, the plot will be allotted to someone who is eligible,”

Additionally, Maheshwari added that the authority will not provide residential plots to farmers who have annexed government land.

Also, the farmers were demanding that the authority desist from assigning the remaining housing land to group housing until their plots are allotted. Consequently, under pressure from the farmers, the authority has agreed to provide this land to farmers in accordance with the policy established for them.

According to the authority, for 5% of residential plots in the land department, there are 225 pending applications, and hundreds of farmers are yet to submit their applications to acquire a 5% residential plot.

According to Maheshwari, we will begin by assessing the eligibility of the 225 farmer applications. Afterwards, they will deal with the cases of the remaining farmers who have not yet submitted their applications in this regard.