Palam Vihar RWA gets a boost from HC

GURGAON: The Haryana and Punjab High Court has instructed the New Palam Vihar colony RWA to inform the high power committee in Gurgaon about the options of alternative plots that affected residents would like to get in return for vacating their land for the proposed construction of the Northern Periphery Road.
Hearing a bunch of petitions moved by the affected house owners, Justice M M Kumar observed that the high power committee set up for finalizing the alternative plot allotment must give the affected houses owners a fair chance.
Welcoming the judgment, the RWA president, R.R. Rana said: We have complete faith in the court which has instructed us (the RWA) to meet the high power committee and inform it about the choice of alternative plots, before the next hearing.
The next date of hearing is on December 10 and the RWA members will be meeting the high power committee in Gurgaon sometime next week. The committee has divisional commissioner T.K. Sharma, DC Rajender Kataria, HUDA Administrator Nitin Yadav, SDM Gurgaon North Satender Duhan and Senior Town Planner R K Singh on board.
Earlier, on November 30 the committee had decided that the affected house owners would be offered plots at a nominal rate of Rs 500 per square yard whereas the actual market rates are much higher. These house owners will be given possession of the plots as soon as an approval is received from the state government.
The RWA members went on warpath against the offer of alternative plots and houses which, they claim, were originally earmarked for economically weaker section. We will inform the committee that the affected residents must be compensated with a plot of same size, said Rana.
There are over 250 houses which fall on the NPR project map which has 150 meter wide road starting from Dwarka in Delhi to the Kherki Daula on NH-8, through Gurgaon.