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Written By blrsri - 26 August, 2008
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Ex PM Vajpayee had asked 'aakhir ek aadmi ko kitna chahiye?'
Improvising we need to ask 'aakhir ek project ko kitne chahiye?!'
http://www.hindu.com/2008/08/26/stories/2008082650210100.htm
The KIADB notified 21,000 acres of private land as against the sanctioned 13,237 acres. What were they doing ?
Probably our ex-PM aware of this fact and that was the reason he was at loggerheads with NICE, after the IT boom made land around Bangalore a gold mine!
Thanks to RTI, the mutual secret is out in the open now..may be if some one can follow this up with a PIL and get things fixed..would be the best thing to happen to Karnataka. Even better, if the govt can take this on, it would be easier and faster.
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Is NICE another tail-spin in the making
Devesh - 27 August, 2008 - 08:05
Every mega PPP project seems to be stuck in some quagmire or the other, mostly political.
It appears that projects proceed and violate some part of the agreement, and then government wakes up after the fact. This is not good for either the project promoter nor the public. If this is reflective of the way our government works, how do we break out of this rut.
One can assume that project promoters are expected to be expert in "briefcase technology".
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transparency is a two way street
silkboard - 28 August, 2008 - 04:14
shas3n - 2 September, 2008 - 10:55
Kannada writer U R Anantamurty files a PIL against NICE regarding this issue. Source TOI.
-Shastri
silkboard - 2 September, 2008 - 12:02
Some other reports in the past had 'claimed' that NICE had less than 7000 acre excess land. This PIL (as reported by above TOI news) says 8000 acres? Are these numbers a joke?
I am very interested in knowing how they decide how much land is really needed to build the expressway. Actually, do we have expressway standards (idontspam), does IRC have anything? These PILs may end up setting these (lane width, distance of service road from main lanes, setback of service road from the fence, width of carriageway etc.
However, most of the land in "dispute" may be for the townships, and not expressway. I am not sure. Nobody is, this project is like a black-hole, information only goes in, never comes out!
blrsri - 27 August, 2008 - 06:32
http://www.hindu.com/2008/08/27/stories/2008082750340100.htm
The govt has started asking questions on this..which is a good thing happening!
KIADB, being a govt org., has flouted rules and processes and got overzealous to give extra land to NICE than what they needed!
Hope this ends with a off court settlement where sense prevails and NICE hands back the extra land and Kheny can stop looking at acting as recreation!
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