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| BAPL likely to hand over land to project affected families in 2 yrs |
| BS Reporter / Kolkata Aug 01, 2009, 01:02 IST |
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Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Ltd (BAPL), a special purpose vehicle that is developing the Rs 10,000 crore airport city project at Andal, around 200 kilometers from Kolkata, hopes to be able to hand over the developed land to land losers in return for their land in around two years from now.
It has earmarked around 105 acres out of the total project area of 2,182 acres to hand out to landowners who gave up their land for the project, as part of the land-for-land scheme. The total number of affectd familes is around 6,800.
BAPL has worked out a scheme by which they would give one cottah of developed land from inside the project area per bigha of land given up by an owner. For people with less than a bigha of land there is an annuity scheme starting Rs 25,000 to be given to the landowner over a period of five years and Rs 2,000 to be added per decimal of land. The maximum that one can get under this scheme is Rs98,000 after which he will get a cottah of land per bigha. Till date, around 666 awardees have accepted cheques for their land that amounts to nearly 320 acres. BAPL expects to start work on the project by the first quarter of the calendar year 2010. It requires around 650 acres initially to start work on the airport.
Meanwhile, the company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the technical education and training department of the state government to provide vocational training to one person per family of land loser. It will spend nearly Rs one crore to upgrade the infrastructure of the Durgapur Industrial Training Institute(ITI). "To start with there will be around 18-20 programmes on offer and we plan to gradually scale it up to 30-40 programmes", said Subrata Paul, CEO and director, BAPL. He pointed out that the company was willing to help bear the additional financial burden incurred by the ITI in terms of teachers' recruitment etc to train around 5,000 people. While there are 6,800 land losers, many have multiple holdings, so the number of youth per family turns out to be around 5,000.
Nearly, 69 per cent of the population in the region were drop-outs after class eight, while only 16 per cent achieved class ten standards and only seven per cent passed class twelve exams, Paul informed. BAPL would bear the cost of training these 5,000 people over the next two years.
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