Request for Fast Track Court in Cargo Hub

In a significant development, the Maharashtra Government has requested the Bombay High Court to constitute two fast track courts to take up land acquisition compensation enhancement cases of Shivangaon and other villages affected by Cargo Hub project.

A letter to this effect has been sent by Maharashtra Government to Bombay High Court due to relentless follow-up by West Nagpur MLA Devendra Fadnavis. Fadnavis had repeatedly raised the issue of raw deal meted to Cargo affected farmers and had utilised all parliamentary tools to get a fair and just compensation to them. During the process, Fadnavis pointed out that very often the land award is challenged in the civil court by aggrieved farmers for enhancement of compensation and due to delay the matter remains pending for quite a long time.

This often creates resentment amongst project affected farmers whose lands are taken at a paltry sum for public utility work. Therefore Fadnavis had asked the Maharashtra Government to set up dedicated fast-track courts at Nagpur to exclusively deal with land compensation matters. During Winter Session of Maharashtra Legislature held at Nagpur, the Chief Minister Ashok Chavan had promised to constitute fast track courts in consultation with the High Court. Fadnavis repeatedly sent reminders to Government and vigorously pursued the matter at the highest level which ultimately forced the Government to make a formal request to High Court. This will help in early settlement of cases of enhancement compensation filed by farmers from Shivangaon and other Cargo affected villages, Fadnavis hoped.

~ by nagpurestate on May 15, 2009.