‘NO’ to Sale deed on Wardha Road

District Collector Pravin Darade has directed Deputy General of Registration and Stamp Controller to stop all the sale deeds pertaining to 175 hectares of land, mostly at Wardha road of Nagpur District. Sources informed that thousands of sale deeds executed or in pipe-line on the basis of disputed Non Agricultural permission will be affected by the order.

It may be mentioned that 82 Non Agriculture permissions were issued by then officiating Assistant Director of Town Planning, Archana Parlewar between February 2 and March 13, 2007. Sources informed that during her tenure, around 800 non-agriculture cases have been cleared by the Town Planning department. However, Urban Development Department (UDD) has directed to stop sale deeds in only 82 cases sanctioned by Parlewar, who was placed under suspension and now posted at Gadchiroli as Town Planner. Following the expose by The Hitavada, land dealings at Wardha Road came to a standstill and land deal worth Rs. 1000 crore were in limbo. The State Government had already constituted a high-level inquiry committee headed by Divisional Commissioner Anand Limaye to examine correctness of NA orders issued by Town Planning department since the year 2001. The land market crashed like a pack of cards and had not recovered following damning revealations. Collector directed all the Deputy Registrars of Nagpur City, Nagpur Rural, Kamptee, Umrer, Saoner, Hingana not to entertain any sale deed of these NA orders. In almost all the cases, NA permissions were given following the ‘no objection certificates’ issued by Parlewar. According to sources, in majority of cases, the power of attorney holders (mostly big land developers) obtained the NA permissions on behalf of original land owners and most of them did a roaring land business during last two years. The district administration has prepared a list of the NA permissions issued through the District Collectorate and has submitted the same to the Government as per the orders. Notably, the Chief Minister had himself directed the district administration to prepare the list of NA permissions issued through the District Collectorate, Sub Divisional Office, and Tehsil Office during Parlewar’s controversial tenure. Of these three offices, the Sub Divisional Office and Tehsil Office are yet to prepare their final list and the list of 82 permission may jump by few hundred.

~ by nagpurestate on September 23, 2008.