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Farmers protest dumping ground near village

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Posted: Oct 25, 2008 at 0254 hrs IST

Lucknow, October 24 Over 150 residents of Naubasta village on the city’s outskirts staged a demonstration at the office of the divisional commissioner on Friday, protesting against the Lucknow Development Authority’s (LDA) plan to develop a dumping ground near their village on Devan Road.

The villagers submitted a memorandum at the office, stating that if the LDA did not shift the site of the dumping ground, they will launch an agitation from November 15. The LDA had earmarked 38 hectares of land near Naubasta for the proposed dumping ground.

The villagers staged the protest under the banner of Bharatiya Gramin Dal (UP). Its president Chandra Bhan Singh Patel said, “Over 500 families live in Naubasta. It is only 100 m away from the proposed dumping ground. Two schools, a nursing home and a residential colony are located there. It will pollute the environment.”

He added that a pond located in the area has also been included in the earmarked space. “The LDA is going to dump garbage in a pond when there is a High Court ruling against damage to any natural water body,” Patel said.

Villages including Dhavaan, Chinhat, Amrai, Matiyari, Hardasikhera, Fatehapurva, Takrohi, Kanchanpur, Matiyari, Ganeshpur, Rehmanpur and other colonies developed by the government are also located near the site. Moreover, the land was fertile and agriculture was the only source of livelihood for the villagers, he said.

LDA Joint Director of Land Acquisition and Development, S B Mishra, said: “The LDA has already surveyed the area. After acquisition, we will hand it over to the Lucknow Municipal

Corporation. The land acquisition process has already been initiated.”

Asked about the protest by the villagers, Mishra said: “I am not aware of any protest. But as the dumping ground is required for the city, it has to be developed somewhere.” Regarding the presence of a pond within the earmarked area, he said in case there is a pond, it will not be used for dumping garbage.

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