Days after Indian Railway broad Chairman’s visit of Jharkhand and his firmness to remove obstacles in the ways to complete six rail projects in the State the Chief Secretary has pulled up his socks. Sudhir Prasad on Thursday has directed the Deputy Commissioners of three districts to resolve all the issues involved.
The CS in his direction has told DCs of latehar, Chatra and Hazaribagh to preside over personally and resolve the problems related to land transfer coming in the completion of the projects. He was reviewing Tori-Shivpur-Khathotia rail line in a high-level meeting.
In the meeting, DC of latehar said that 64.335 acre of jungal-jhari land would be transferred within 15 days of getting proposal from Palamau Commissioner. land transfer proposals for 150.765 acres out of 166.43 acre of GM land has been given to the Commissioner and the proposal from the railway for rest 15.665 acre of GM land is under consideration with latehar DC
The Chatra DC informed that proposal for 14.88 acre jungal-jhari land was received and for the rest 25.93 acre the public hearing was under process which would take place on September 30. 9.84 acre of raiyati land has been acquired under old act for which compensation would be fixed under lARR Act, 2013. Direction to send proposal for jungal-jhari and GM land by September 25 has also been given. The Hazaribagh DC informed that NOC for jungal-jhari land has been given while for GM land he assured that after getting proposal form the Commissioner the land would be transferred within 15 days.
Secretaries of Energy Department, Forest and Environment, Urban Development Department, Transport Department and several other officials were also present.