Corridor land: Farmers look for four-fold compensation

Amritsar | Thursday | 24th January, 2019

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The proposed ICP at Dera Baba Nanak was yet to be notified, he added. Narinder Singh, a Dera Baba Nanak resident, said: “We were not allowed to meet the LPAI team so we staged a dharna. Once we give our land, we will be landless farmers. We are not sure whose land would be acquired for the corridor, but we want the compensation to be at least three times the cost of our land.”Jamhuri Kissan Sabha, Gurdaspur general secretary Balwinder Singh said they wouldn’t settle for anything less than four-times the cost of land. GURDASPUR: The Land Port Authority of India (LPAI) has sought acquisition of 50 acres of land in Dera Baba Nanak for an integrated check post (ICP) to be set up along the proposed Kartarpur corridor LPAI chairman Anil Kumar Bamba, who was visiting the area on Wednesday to inspect land for the ICP, told TOI: "There will be an ICP at Dera Baba Nanak to facilitate cross-border movement of the passengers (devotees)..