GURGAON: According to an estimate, total of 339 acre of Huda's prime land, which has market value of more than Rs 3000 crore, is under encroachment. Out of this 206 acre of land is under litigation in Punjab and Haryana High Court, while 133 acre lands are free from any litigation.
These lands are in sectors 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32A, 32, 33, 34, 38, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52, 53, 54, 57. "At present all these lands are encroached by slum dwellers, vendors and shopkeepers," said a senior Huda official adding that all these lands were acquired by Huda long back by paying compensation to the land owners. But over the period of time these lands were encroached, as these lands were vacant for a long time. At presented market value of these lands is around Rs 10 to Rs 15 crores per acre.
Reeling under financial crises mainly due to enhancement in compensation against acquisition of land, Huda is now eyeing to free its land from encroachments instead of acquiring new land to carry out development works in existing sectors of the city.
Recently chief minister has directed official of MCG and Huda to free government land from encroachments. "We are going to start a drive against encroachment and this time we will construct a boundary wall on these land to prevent any further encroachment," said estate officer-II Tarun Pawaria adding that in first phase they act against encroachments in 29, 30, 31.
Huda's enthusiasm to act against encroachment has come in the light of state government decision to mortgage urban development authority's land bank to raise huge loan from HUDCO and sale commercial plots to bring out Huda from its financial crisis. "If required, sale of these precious land can help to fill up Huda depleted coffer," said official adding that for this land is need to be free from encroachment.
"Encroachment on open land in Huda sectors has become a big menace, it has caused several problems for the residents," said president of Palam Vihar RWA Sunil Yadav adding that lands were encroached due to negligence of Huda official.