Coming to the help of hundreds of residents of Sectors 23 to twenty-eight, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday introduced that they won’t bear the burden of land enhancement price, operating into tons of of crores.

While making the announcement within the Vidhan Sabha, Khattar additionally stated that an inquiry will likely be marked into the matter. The chief minister’s statements got here after the matter was raised within the meeting by JJP MLA from Narnaund, Ram Kumar Gautam.

The residents, most of them aged with no supply of revenue, had been spending sleepless nights for the reason that Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) requested a number of housing societies in Sectors 23 to twenty-eight to pay land enhancement price, 20 years after the land that these have been constructed on was initially acquired in 1992.

Enhancement is the rise in compensation paid to a farmer/landowner for the acquisition of their land, which is determined by a court docket in case they don’t seem to be happy with the value of land provided by the state authorities or its company.

The residents of homes or group housing societies constructed on that land are then liable to pay the price of enhancement.

“In 1992, 44 acres were allocated to Sector 24. Out of these, 19 acres were saleable and other areas were common. But in 2012-13, the development authority, through an afterthought added 76 acres of Ghaggar land, 20 years after initial land acquisition, causing the land enhancement cost to increase manifold,” stated Upender Pathak, normal secretary of the Sector-24 resident welfare affiliation.

He stated residents had repeatedly requested the authorities to recalculate the price after eradicating the extra land, in order that they might deposit the improved quantity to HSVP and avail of the final and closing settlement scheme (LFSS) to keep away from curiosity burden.

Pathak stated at present, the quantity calculated for Sector 24 alone was round 100 crore. “The residents cannot even think of paying this huge amount, which comes to around 20-25 lakh per flat owner,” he stated.