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While the opposition is attacking the land pooling policy of the Punjab government, and farmer organizations are busy making it an issue, the common farmer likes this policy a lot and has also started giving his land to the government under this policy.
For the first time, a government has introduced a policy that the land of farmers will not be acquired. Many experts raised questions about this, that without acquisition, farmers will not give their land to the government, and the scheme will fail. But the real picture is exactly the opposite. The land pooling policy has created panic not among farmers but among private builders. Farmers are participating in this scheme in large numbers.
In the urban estate in Patiala, farmers have agreed to give about 150 acres of land to the government under the land pooling scheme. In Mohali, too, 50 farmers have agreed to give their land to the government. In Amritsar too, farmers are enthusiastic about this scheme, and they want to give their land to the government to build an urban estate.
The farmers handing over their land to the government on such a large scale without acquisition with their consent shows that the farmers are very positive about this scheme, despite the political and commercial opposition to the scheme. Under this scheme, the farmers who will give their land to the government for urban estate development will be given 1000-yard residential plots in the urban estate in exchange for one acre of land, which they can sell anytime. Apart from this, 200-yard commercial SCOs will also be given to the farmer in the urban estate market itself. The farmer can sell this too whenever he wants.
The price of such large residential and commercial plots in the urban estate is crores of rupees more than the current rate of the farmers’ land, so the farmers are readily accepting this scheme of the government. On the other hand, it also has political and commercial consequences, the fear of which is visible in the political parties and the builder lobby. Under this scheme, the government plans to build urban estates in 25 cities across Punjab.
In the cities where the government has announced plans to build urban estates, the sale of plots in illegal colonies of private builders has stopped. People have started planning to buy plots in urban estates at cheaper rates than the market rate. Therefore, the entire builder lobby has come out in opposition to this scheme. On the other hand, political parties have also started realizing that by building urban estates on such a large scale, while the Mann government will win the hearts of urban voters, no government has ever given farmers such a high price for their land, or said that no government has given them a share in urban estates to date. If this scheme succeeds, the Mann government will also benefit tremendously politically.
Therefore, all political parties are also strongly opposing this scheme. Under this policy, if many farmers collect and give 9 acres of land at different places, then in return they will be given three acres of land at one place in a fully developed urban estate where they can themselves build a group housing society, or they can sell the group housing plots to any builder at the desired price.
This means that for the first time, farmers are not forced to sell their land to builders. If they want, they can become builders themselves or earn crores by selling their land to builders at the desired price.It is a public fact that there is a huge demand for residential plots in the cities of Punjab. In the last 10 years, colonies have been developed on about 20 thousand acres of land, most of which have been built illegally without basic amenities. That is why this scheme is facing more opposition from the builder lobby than from the common people and farmers.
Under the Land Pooling Scheme, there is a plan to develop Urban Estates in Patiala, Sangrur, Barnala, Bathinda, Mansa, Moga, Ferozepur, Nawanshahr, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Sultanpur L o d h i , K a p u r t h a l a , Phagwara, Nakodar, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Batala, Tarn Taran, Pathankot and Ludhiana, which will expand the planned urban areas in these cities and people will get opportunities for high quality living with excellent facilities and will stop illegal colonies without facilities.
