Darshan Singh Mitha
Rajpura, 7 January
Due to the pressure of the farmers’ organization Ujada Roku Sangharsh Committee, which is struggling for the return of 533 acres of unused land acquired by the Seal Chemical Factory in 1993, the representatives of the company, SDM Rajpura and the members of the Sangharsh Committee in Mini Secretariat Rajpura today. A meeting was held.
In the meeting, Lashkar Singh, the convener of the anti-evacuation struggle committee, said that the struggle committee and the management of the seal company have presented their own facts as evidence. SDM Rajpura said that this issue is at the level of higher officials, so soon they will prepare a report on this issue and send it to the concerned department of the Punjab government and as soon as the matter is decided by the government, it will be implemented. . The company shall not carry out any kind of construction or any other such activity on the disputed land which may cause any change in the existing structure of the land.
In the meeting, SDM Rajpura Avikesh Gupta, DSP Ghanoor Harman Cheema, Tehsildar KS Dutta, along with Sangharsh Committee officers Gurmeet Singh Dittupur, Tejinder Singh Hashampur, Prem Singh Bhangu, Iqbal Singh Mandoli, Harjinder Singh Lakha, Amarjit Ghanoor, Balkar Singh Bains, Karam Singh were present in the meeting. And Darbara Singh and others were involved.
After the meeting with the administration, convener Lashkar Singh said that in 1993, the company had demanded 1000 acres of land, but the MLA at that time gave eight pindas (1119 acres) of land to the company more than the requested land.
This was strongly opposed by the farmers. Seeing the growing opposition of farmers, 488 acres of land of 4 villages were denotified. As a result, the company got 631 acres of land, out of which the company has installed projects on only 98 acres of land, the rest of the land is lying unused. At that time, the company had entered into a written agreement that if the company failed to put the entire land into use within 10 years, the rest of the unused land would be given back to the farmers.
