Farmers whose land was
acquired at a meagre Rs. 4 per square yard in South West Delhi way back in 1955
in the name of undertaking planned development have now seized upon the
opportunity raised by the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of
India — on the loss caused to the Exchequer by leasing away of some of this
very land by Indira Gandhi International Airport concessionaire Delhi
International Airports Limited to commercial enterprises — to demand higher
compensation.
For the farmers of
Mahipalpur, Nangal Dewat and Rangpuri villages near the airport, many of whom
have over the past 57 years been fighting legal battles for enhanced
compensation, the report was a godsend.
“I was pursuing the
land acquisition case and the airport privatisation issue for getting higher
compensation for the farmers through the Supreme Court. But when this CAG
report came out, I decided to share the documents which had been procured by me
from the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Delhi government,” says Colonel
(Retd.) Devender Sehrawat, who had filed applications under the Right to
Information Act on these issues.
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