Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Airport concessionaire made a fortune


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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