On Monday, during zero hour, leader of opposition Ajay Bhatt raised the point that on November 28, 2013, 34 acres of land earmarked for building of city park in Dehradun, in which several basic amenities and facilities were supposed to be developed by the State Government.
later, the land were shown as commercial area in new master plan of State. Now, the State Government is planning to sell the piece of land @ `seven to eight crore to the private builder. Even land use has been changed as residential area. Replying to their allegation, Parliamentary affair Minister Indira Hridayesh said that as per the master plan 2008 the area was declared for city park and housing department has not made any change in land use so far.
Getting this reply, Bhatt demanded that there is a need to do investigate the nexus between SIDCUl and Revenue department and also identify who is the land mafia within the Government. It is also matter of an investigation that how government order is being issued time to time.
later, CM Harish Rawat assured the House that the land is intact with Government. Meanwhile, MlA Navprabhat reminded that there is a Supreme Court ruling that if government acquires gram sabha's land for a purpose, then they can't give the land for another purpose and if they do so, then again they (the State Government) will have to seek gram Sabha permission.