Huda reduces enhancement fee by 50% for sec 25, 26

PANCHKULA: The residents of sectors 25 and 26, Panchkula, who were till now regretting the decision to purchased plots here, now have a reason to smile as the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) has decided to cut down the enhanced compensation fee by around 50%. Huda had imposed lakhs of compensation on commercial areas which did not fall under the category of the plot owners.Huda had imposed fifth enhancement of Rs 1,967.51 per square yard for the plot owners of Sector 25, which has now been reduced to around Rs 933.81 and enhancement of Rs 3,361.80 per square yard has been reduced to Rs 1,839.81. Not only this, the sixth enhancement has also been imposed by Huda.
“Thanks to the court orders, Huda was forced to sympathize with public,” said president of Joint Action Committee, S S Gill. Rajbeer Singh, a resident of Sector 26, Panchkula, said, “For us, it’s a big reason to smile. We have been crying for the past many years with Huda constantly imposing enhancements and increasing the same each year. We could not even celebrate our festivals because of the heavy enhancement fee.”
On the other side, plot owners of sectors 27 and 28 are still waiting for relief. When contacted, estate officer of the Huda, Ashwini Sharma, confirmed the development. “Yes, the compensation has been reduced. The decision was taken following court orders.”
The plot owners had alleged that while calculating the enhanced compensation for four sectors, (from sectors 25 to 28) Huda has taken the total area as 1,150 acres. On the other hand, Haryana government had itself taken stand that while acquisition was of 1,153 acres of land with a total of 1,074 acres for development of the five sectors. Thus, the areas of sectors 25 to 28 were obviously less than 1,074 acres.
Huda was seeking to recover enhanced compensation for 402.75 acres of land from the existing allottees, which fall under the Ghaggar River.
Huda also said large areas in these sectors are ear-marked for the EWS category. The flotation rate of these areas was several times lower than that for the general category. However, the major portion of the enhanced compensation for such area is being borne by the existing allottees under the general category.