International Airport Vs Fertile Land:Saharanpur

AirportVsFertileLand:Saharanpur
Is The decision of the State Government to construct an airport by acquiring fertile agriculture lands (eg: Gangoh (Saharanpur UP)) is in favor of people living their or not?
While the change in the political equations between the Centre and the Mayawati government in UP is likely to signal a burial for the chief minister's most ambitious projects, the 5000-crore Greenfield Taj international aviation hub in Jewar, it is also likely to put two more international airports, one in Gangoh (Saharanpur) and the other one in Kushinagar on the backburner. We are supposed to get a fully functioning, brand new international airports in UP Jewer (Greater Noida), Kushinagar and Gangoh (Saharanpur UP) as per recent visit of Saharanpur UP. While the initial concept report for the Gangoh international airport is ready, the consulting agency is testing the feasibility of Kushinagar international airport, government sources confirmed. “The way, the Jewar airport is part of Taj Expressway project, Gagoh will be a part of the proposed 250 km, eight-laned Ghaziabad-Saharanpur-Dehradun Hindan Expressway, whereas the proposal to have an international airport in Kushinagar revolves around the acute need to cater to the heavy rush of international tourists visiting Kushinagar, which is at the centre of the Buddhist circuit”, confirmed a senior government officer.
This new airport is supposed to come up near Gangoh (Saharanpur UP) at a site 150 kilometres away from the existing airport at IGIA Delhi. This is an ambitious project which will cost at least a billion dollars. In the new era of public private partnerships, the airport will be mostly funded by the private sector, with a small contribution from the central government-controlled Airports Authority and UP Industrial Development Authority.

The airport requires a huge amount of land, since it will have many runways of almost 5 km each, and a large terminal and cargo storage area. The new airport would need to acquire 11 square kilometres (ie, 1,100 hectares) of land. The land acquisition responsibility lies mostly with the government. This is the first big headache for this project. That’s because we are in a region which has seen fierce resistance against land acquisition for an SEZ.
Benefit:
1) The Gangoh international airport will benefit six states: Haryana, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Uttaranchal and UP. “There is no major airport within 150 to 200 kilometre of Delhi, even for domestic flights'', he said quoting from the report.
2) This project will Give fame and name to Saharanpur in the field of aviation and development
3) This project may be create lot of employment in this area and good infrastructure for future.
Drawback ::
Over all it is good point has been take from Chief minister Mayawati ji but the area Gangoh (Saharanpur UP) where this airport has been proposed is very fertile land and It is clear that for making a airport we required at least 11 square kilometer area (vast fertile area of Ganagoh) which means it need lot of land for this airport and may be vanish 50+ nearby village for making this project. Is it correct way to do this project???
Is The decision of the State Government to construct an airport by acquiring fertile agriculture lands (eg: Gangoh (Saharanpur UP)) is in favor of people living their or not?
Saharanpur is famous for it agriculture land, sugar , wood, paper mills and mangos. If government try to acquire this fertile land for airport it is not good for the people of Saharanpur for agriculture point of view but it can give Saharanpur fame and development. In India very less land is good for agriculture and if destroy it, it will create a huge problem in future. I think government is committing a major blunder by identifying fertile lands to construct the airport. It is not good to acquiring agricultural lands of farmers forcibly at a time when the country was facing food scarcity. The government had no moral right to acquire fertile lands of farmers forcefully in the name of development. There might be vast track of barren lands in nearby places, noted that the government should think of building the airport in barren lands even if it were to be a little far from main city. The Government on the one hand wanted to protect the lands in the Green Belt and on the other, it harped on “grabbing” fertile agriculture lands. We request our honorable chief minister Mayawati’s government find some other “barren” land for the airport and create this great project.
The state government will acquire land from nearby villages compulsorily, at a fraction of its market value, although the Bill to amend the Land Acquisition Act, requires companies henceforth purchase land from willing buyers through negotiation, as the Punjab government is doing for Chandigarh’s international airport. Had UP government will do so, it would have been forced to take a much closer look at how much additional land is really requires (very little, if any at all). It would have taken into account the true cost and economic value of land, and the need to minimize displacement and choose the least displacing of available alternatives, as required by recent judgments of the Supreme Court.
Drawbacks:
1) Farmer will loss their land and occupation
2) Loss of fertile land cause food problem as well as insecurity in the mind of local people and farmers
3) Due to loss of fertile land no sugar, no wood, no paper and no mangos means everything will ruined
4) Saharanpur will los it heritage and name due to agriculture
5) Environment problem will occur and pollution will increase and many problem will occur
Good move from the UP government for creating Hindon Expressway project.

The state government is all set to invite consultants for the 250-km Hindon Expressway project that will connect Ghaziabad to Dehradun and Haridwar.
The state chief secretary will hold a meeting next Monday to finalise the tender process. The eight-lane expressway — the first inter-state venture with no intervention by the Centre — is to be built jointly by the governments of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
The officials of both states had met on June 30 to devise a joint strategy for the speedy construction of the expressway. Under the plan, it was decided that the Uttarakhand government would bear the cost of building the Saharanpur-Dehradun stretch of the expressway. The project has already got the nod from the environment ministry and it is likely to be constructed on a build, operate and transfer basis.
Though the aerial inspection for the expressway has been completed, the construction work is expected to begin only by the year-end.
This expressway will start from the border of the NCR at Noida/Ghaziabad. It will run along the banks of the river Hindon and on its way it will touch cities like Meerut, Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar and Kulesra (Saharanpur), which is at the UP-Uttarakhand border. From there, the expressway will be extended to Dehradun and Haridwar.
Once completed, Greater Noida will be have three state-of-the-art expressways named after three rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Hindon passing through the state.
At present, the traffic congestion is high on the Delhi-Dehradun highway, in spite of the road being widened. Since the work to widen the road is progressing at a snail’s pace, the Uttarakhand government showed interest in the state government’s proposal, said an official.
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