In Chansad, the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited required 11.94 hectare of private land and Savita Ben sold her plot for Rs 30,094
A Non-Resident Gujarat (NRG) octogenarian from Vadodara, who is presently settled in Germany, handed over her ancestral land in a Vadodara village for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project, making it the first piece of land to be acquired in the state for the project, an NHSRCL official said Friday.
Savita Ben, who runs an Indian restaurant in Germany, and originally from Chansad village of Vadodara’s Padra taluka, shifted abroad 33 years ago after getting married.
In Chansad, the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) required 11.94 hectare of private land and Savita Ben sold her plot for Rs30,094.
“She flew down specially to hand over the land for the project and we are extremely grateful to her for having agreed to it. She returned to Germany where she lives with her son and runs a restaurant,” NHSRCL spokesperson Dhananjay Kumar said.
He confirmed that Savita Ben’s land is the first piece of land “which we have acquired for the Bullet train project in the state”.
On Thursday, National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited also bagged 0.29 hectare of private land in Paye village in Maharashtra’s Thane district and gave a total compensation of Rs3,32 crore to four plot holders.
“The sale deeds were signed and amount released today to the bank account within three hours of signing documents,” said Kumar.
The 508-kilometre corridor would require around 1,400 hectare land in Gujarat and Maharashtra, of which 1,120 hectares is privately owned. Around 6,000 land owners will have to be compensated.
Earlier, National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited has managed to acquire only 0.09% of the total land required for the project, and has been dealing with protests across the two states over land acquisition issues. The railways is now conducting consent camps in districts where it needs land to convince farmers to give up their land.
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