Improvement Trust starts process to give NOCs

Sukhmeet Bhasin

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Tribune News Service

Bathinda, April 11

After two and a half years since the Supreme Court gave its verdict, the Improvement Trust has started the process of issuing no objection certificates (NOC) to Green Avenue and Jujhar Singh Nagar residents.

The state government has given instructions to the Improvement Trust through a letter to give the NOCs.

The Improvement Trust had acquired 45.57 acre land in street number 3 and 4 of the Green Avenue colony and street number 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in Jujhar Singh Nagar for the ring road-2 project near Model Town Phase-2.

At that time, the trust had acquired the land at the rate of Rs 700 per yard, but later, the trust decided to sell plots at the rate of Rs 16,000-20,000 per yard.

In 2004, around 130 families didn’t vacate the land and approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court against the trust.

After fighting for eight years, the High Court gave the decision in favour of the trust. Later, in April 2011, the petitioners again filed a complaint with the Supreme Court and on August 6, 2013, the court had ordered in favour of the residents. Since then, the residents have been awaiting the NOC.

The petitioners alleged that the Improvement Trust was delaying the process of giving them NOC and the trust wanted to earn crores of rupees by acquiring their land at low price and selling it further at high rates.

ADC (D)-cum-chairman of the Bathinda Improvement Trust, Sheena Aggarwal, said after getting the approval from the state government, they had already started giving NOCs to the those came under the ring road phase-1 45.57 scheme. In the first phase, they have even given NOCs to 51 families, she added.