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Ganga Expressway Industrial Corridor Meerut: Uttar Pradesh’s plan to develop an industrial corridor along the ambitious project ‘Ganga Expressway’ seems to be stuck in land acquisition. Despite strict orders from the Uttar Pradesh government and UPIEDA, it has become a big and headache challenge for the Meerut district administration to acquire sufficient land for the project. Due to massive protests and demonstrations by farmers, the pace of this big expressway project has slowed down.
214 hectares required in first phase, administration got only 159 hectares
To create an industrial corridor under the first phase along the Ganga Expressway to give new heights to the development of Meerut. 214 hectares Land is required. The process of purchasing this land has been going on for more than a year, but the work had almost come to a standstill for the last several months.
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Mathematics of Acquisition: Initially, a total of 203 hectares of land was to be purchased from the farmers, out of which the work suddenly stopped after the registration of 143 hectares.
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Shortage of government land: Apart from this, out of the 11 hectares of government land identified for the corridor, only 7 hectares of land has been transferred to the administration so far.
Administration in action after DM meeting, 9 contracts made in one day
Recently, the District Magistrate (DM) of Meerut had held a high-level meeting with administrative officials to break the deadlock of land acquisition. After the strict instructions received in this meeting, the Tehsil administration took major action on Monday. The administration in a single day 9 hectares of land from 17 farmers through 9 different deeds Successfully acquired. After this new purchase, the total land available with the administration has increased. 159 hectares has been reached, but it is still far away from the target (214 hectares).
Farmers have been sitting on strike for the second phase for nine and a half months
Amidst the difficulties of the first phase, the path of the second phase (Phase 2) of the industrial corridor seems to be even more thorny.
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300 hectare screw: Total from three major villages for second phase development 300 hectares Land is needed.
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Side-by-Side Battle: The farmers of these villages are not ready to give their fertile land to the government at any cost. Farmers have come forward to save their lands and to demand proper compensation and other demands. Continuous protest for nine and a half months And they are protesting, due to which UPEDA’s problems have increased.
Corridors will be built in 1500 hectares in 12 districts of UP
It is worth noting that the scheme of Uttar Pradesh Government is being implemented in 12 districts including Meerut on the route of Ganga Expressway. 1500 hectares Industrial corridors are to be established in the area. The aim of the government is to build logistics parks, warehouses and manufacturing hubs along the expressway so that lakhs of youth can get employment at the local level and the economy of the state can be boosted. But this land dispute going on in Meerut is coming in the way of the government’s deadline.