The Mumbai-
Expected by 2022, Ponds, ambulances, officials said solar street lights and doctors were some of the requirements that villagers in the Maharashtra region wanted to meet before nodding their heads to the government's ambitious bullet train program.
The national high-speed Railway Co. , Ltd. hopes to overcome the resistance of the villagers (NHRCL)
The node agency implementing the project has adjusted its strategy to ensure that Mumbai-
The Ahmedabad bullet train will carry out 2022 launches and agree to many conditions.
In 23 villages facing extreme resistance, national human rights institutions have failed to make great progress through large-scale contact programmes, and their positions have changed significantly, in addition to the compensation payable, their request is being sought from individual landowners.
"We have changed our position.
Earlier, we will call villagers in the village of chowks to convince them that the project will bring benefits.
It doesn't work, so we decided to target the landowner only now and ask the village chief to give in writing what they want, in addition to compensating them for their land, "spokesman NHRCL Dhananjay Kama
About 110 km of the 508 km-kilometer train corridor passes through palgaal.
The project is estimated to cover an area of 300 hectares in 73 villages, affecting about 3,000 people.
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$17 billion bullet train-
This will reduce the distance from Mumbai to Ahmadinejad from the usual 7 hours to less than 3 hours-
Tribal and fruit growers in the Pagar region are strongly opposed.
Slowly, however, it seems that the staff of the national human rights institution have reversed the situation by targeting the specific needs of the villagers, most of which have nothing to do with their personal needs, it is related to basic necessities such as street lights and ambulances throughout the community.
For example, there is a leaking pond in the village of Mankundsar in the area.
They demanded a wall for a five-hectare pond.
Similarly, the villages of Khurd and Vikramgar require the deployment of regular doctors.
Bete village asked for ambulances and solar street lights, while another asked for bullet train stations.
Another, Kelwa, asked for regular delivery of medicines.
All of these requirements were made on the letterhead of the village sarpanches on behalf of the village landowner, in order to ensure the integrity of the parties.
"If they give it to us in writing, we will comply with their requirements.
"This project will bring employment and development to the region and we are happy to help them," Kumar said . ".
There are sapota in the corridor against land acquisition (chiku)
Mango growers. Like 62-year-
Old dashas PRAF, a farmer at Palghar, said the authorities asked him to hand over his hard-working land for more than 30 years to develop the sapota plantation.
"The government should make sure that at least one of my two unemployed sons gets government work before I hand over the land," he said . ".
Tribes in the villages of Hanuman Nagar and Chandra Nagar in palgar also opposed the bullet train project, which was displaced in 1990 to build the Suria dam project in their area.
The villagers claimed they were still unclear and had no time to respond to the notice.
In Gujarat, the project, although not so rigid, still faces resistance.
Officials seem less concerned about the fate of the project in the state, as NHRCL has issued a notice to 185 of the 195 villages in Gujarat state asking them to abandon the land action under the State Government's land acquisition.
However, farmer activist Sagar Rabari said that some affected landowners continued to protest the acquisition, raising objections in a memorandum to collectors in the relevant area.
According to Krishnakant, an activist for the NGO Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti, this is a two-
The national project and acquisition process should be handled by the central government as an appropriate institution rather than by the state government.
"According to the provisions of the amended land Collection Law in Gujarat, this is not possible.
"Farmers may question the land acquisition process in court," he said . ".
However, Kumar noted that land is the subject of a country.
"That's why we follow Bill 2013 in Maharashtra and Bill 2016 in Gujarat," he said . ".
The villagers also claimed that they had received the notice too late because they were not sent by registered mail, but by local officials who delayed the delivery of the notice.
"This gives us very little time to respond, and sometimes, under the provisions of the act, there is only one or two days for 60 days," Bhagubhai Patel said . ", An affected farmer in Saron village, wathad area, Gujarat, the project needs to obtain about 850 hectares of land from about 5,000 households in eight areas ---
Ahmadinejad, elephant trap, Anad Baroda, Baruch, Navsari Surat and valsade County.
In addition to Maharashtra and Gujarat, the proposed high-speed rail corridor will pass through the joint territories of Dada and Nagar Haveli.
For national human rights institutions, the commitment made to villagers in these two states is key to meeting their deadline on Independence Day, August 15, 2022, four years later.