Starting from February 12, 2023, villagers of 23 villages will hold a chain protest against the proposed project of developing a city called Navi Mumbai Airport Influence Area (NAINA) in Panvel taluka. Each village will stop all work for a day and hold a protest against the project.
๐ก๐๐๐ก๐, ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ถ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐, ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ถ๐น๐ผ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐
The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) is developing NAINA consisting of 23 villages as part of the pilot project. The chain protest will be carried out under the banner of NAINA Project Affected Utkarsh Samiti (NPAUS).
Former MLC Balaram Patil said that the purpose of the chain protest is to inform villagers about the project and how it will snatch their lands. โCIDCO is taking land without giving compensation,โ said Patil.
NAINA is a participatory land pooling scheme where villagers will get 40 percent of the developed land of the total land they will surrender to develop NAINA city in the Raigad district. At present, CIDCO is executing a pilot project, consisting of 23 villages in the Raigad district.
๐ข๐ป๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐
As per the plan, starting from February 13, one village will be closed for the day from 9 am to 4.30 pm. Only essential services will be allowed. Villagers will assemble during this period and protest against the project.
Advocate Suresh Thakur, PAP leader said that the scheme is not viable for villagers. โThe impact assessment report says that around 42% of land in NAINA is multi-crop land. How will the villagers survive if they surrender these lands and get only 40% of the development land? Even villagers have to pay different charges for development.โ
๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ผ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐๐
Recently, CIDCO proposed Infrastructure Contribution Charges (ICC) for issuing no-objection-certificate (NOC) for all transactions like the sale and purchase of apartments, shops, land, and built premises development on a leasehold or freehold land in NAINA. Developersโ bodies opposed the proposed ICC. They said the proposed changes will directly impact the home buyers as any additional burden will be passed on to end consumers.
After completion of the chain protest, a protest march will be taken to Mantralaya, said a member of the committee.
