'We are being victimised by the PMC'

Landowners from suburban Pune allege that the PMC is exploiting them in the guise of creating a bio diversity park, form a group of fight for rights

Landowners from suburban Pune allege that the PMC is exploiting them in the guise of creating a bio diversity park, form a group of fight for rights
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Around 400 landowners, most of them senior citizens, are crying foul since the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)u00a0 reserved their plots for a Bio Diversity Park (BDP) project.

The landowners recently formed a group called Nagri Hakk Samiti (NHS) to fight for their rights.

Sudhir Kulkarni, president of NHS, alleged, "Amazingly, a few politicians who had lands in the area that came under the BDP plan, have managed to be excluded from the list." Referring to the MRTP Act 1966, Kulkarni said, "There's no information about any land lock policy for such reservations. We are actually being victimised by the PMC."

Besides, Kulkarni added that the compensation offered to them by the PMC is no where close to the market value of the land. "The PMC offered us one-fourth of the present market price for our land which is quite unfair," he said.

While Mangesh Dighe, environmental development officer at PMC, rubbished the landowners claims and said, "The PMC is strictly enforcing environmental norms in the reservation of ploys for the BDP plan."

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