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Bullet train project: Centre will offer a compensation to landowners
India’s first Bullet train project faces land acquisition hurdles and offers five times higher compensation
With land acquisition becoming one of the major hurdles in the way of country’s first bullet train, the Centre is considering to make the compensation package more lucrative. The project is scheduled to be completed by August 2022.
The National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL), which is executing the Japan-aided Ahmedabad-Mumbai Bullet Train Corridor, has sent a related proposal in the format of ‘Compensation Matrix’ to the Maharashtra Government by classifying ‘land losers’.
Details of the Project and land acquisition hurdles
The list has specified 25 special categories of landowners who can avail additional benefits besides the regular market rate compensation. The list includes SCs/STs, widows or separated women, disabled and senior citizens.
The land acquisition has to be completed by the end of December 2018 since the construction work is to begin in January 2019.
The Indian Railways is acquiring around 1,400 hectares of linear land in Maharashtra and Gujarat at a cost of Rs 10,000 crore. More than 70 tribal villages of Palghar have refused to give land for the project. The 508-km corridor connecting the capitals of Maharashtra and Gujarat have 110 km of the corridor passing through Palghar district alone.
