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“Pay compensation dues to farmers at enhanced rate”

NEW DELHI: A day after the Delhi Cabinet decided to treble the rate of monetary compensation to be paid to farmers for land acquired from them, former Union Minister Vijay Goel on Wednesday demanded enhanced compensation for all those farmers whose land had been acquired but who had not been paid the compensation so far.

The BJP leader contended that the farmers who have not been paid the compensation should now be paid the new, higher rates because if they had been paid the compensation at the time their land was acquired, they would have been able to invest their money and earned some profit or interest on it by now.

Mr. Goel also charged that the decision to enhance the compensation had been taken very late and claimed that due to this many farmers have suffered.

“The Government had acquired vast tracts of land before coming out with the announcement on enhancement of compensation and as such those farmers whose land had been acquired earlier would be deprived of the higher rates,” he cautioned.

Stating that till now the Delhi Development Authority had been acquiring land at the rate of Rs.25 lakh per acre and selling it at Rs.40 crore to 50 crore per acre, Mr. Goel said it was indeed sad that the Authority which had been mandated with providing low-cost housing and land to the public was now working like a property agent.

“The private colonisers have been purchasing land from farmers at the rate of Rs.3 crore per acre and have been developing unauthorised colonies,” the BJP leader said, adding that if the land rate and compensation had been raised earlier such unauthorised colonies would not have mushroomed.

Even recently, he said, the DDA had acquired 2,200 acre of land for DSIIDC for which the compensation has still not been paid to the farmers.

He demanded that all these farmers be now paid compensation according to the enhanced rates.

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