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Mayor: Ganguly can use land for commercial purposes

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Posted: Apr 24, 2008 at 0054 hrs IST

kolkata, April 23 In a new twist to the Sourav Ganguly land controversy, Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya said on Wednesday that Ganguly had full liberty to use the land gifted to him by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) for commercial purposes.

“The draft deed was signed in 2003, by the then Trinamool Congress board, and was handed over to Ganguly at a function.

“We have just executed what the Trinamool-BJP board had done,” said the mayor at a monthly meeting of the KMC House.

Earlier, Ganguly hit the eye of the storm when Trinamool councillor Atin Ghosh alleged he was planning to use the land for commercial purposes in violation of the 2003 municipal corporation resolution, which stated that land given would be used for “promotion of sports”.

He said that KMC cannot “gift” land and so it was leased for free to Ganguly and a resolution was passed in the KMC regarding that, in 2003.

“The mayor bypassed the House and executed a deed of gift on June 10, 2006, even though it was decided in 2003 that the land would be leased out.

“This is a clear case of forgery,” said Ghosh

Following this, Ganguly requested the KMC to take back the 10-cottah plot near his residence at Behala, in view of the allegations of violation of the land lease agreement, the mayor told the meeting.

The 99-year lease agreement with Ganguly, inked on September 10, 2003, envisaged that the star cricketer would build a sports complex with a gymn-asium and other facilities on the land at Raja Ram-mohan Roy Road, the mayor said.

“The cost of running the gymnasium built on the premises will be borne by renting out of one of the floors to a bank,” said the mayor, denying the allegations.

TMC councillors staged a walk out.

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Citizen protest against Sourav's land ar Saltlake by Civilsociety on 07 Jul 2009

Kolkata: Sourav Ganguly in the midst of another controversy over a prime plot of land allotted to him in Kolkata's posh Salt Lake area by West Bengal government.Ganguly wants to build a school on the land but is facing resistance from Intellectuals,Humanity, the NGO and local residents who say the allotment is illegal.They allege that the state government doled out undue favor to grant him this prime plot at a throwaway price, violating all rules.Replying to an RIT application, the government has admitted to granting a lease of the one acre plot to Ganguly for a little over Rs 20 lakh whereas the auction price of the same land could be not less than 20Cr.It is reported in the media,that last 25 June, a section of intellectuals including Suvaprasanna, the artist, Sunanda Sanyal, the educationist, Pusan Gupta, The journalist-author, have taken part in a token Huger Strike before Sourav's controversial land at Salt lake, against the 'illegal,arbitrary' distribution of land.

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