Nashik: Smart city officials are on tenterhooks as the farmers whose land is to be acquired for the Greenfield project are yet to take a final call on parting with their land.The Nashik Municipal Smart City Development Corporation (MNSCDC) Ltd held a meeting at the Kalidas Kala Mandir with farmers from Makhmalabad and Nashik areas, where the Greenfield development is proposed under town planning scheme. During the meeting, the NMSCDCL officials gave a presentation on how the project would be implemented.The NMSCDCL explained that under the town planning scheme infrastructure will be developed for solid waste management, biomedical waste management, scada water meters, fire stations, hospitals, schools, police points, cycling tracks, footpaths, pedestrian and disabled friendly roads, smart lights, bus stops and e-toilets etc. As per the scheme, farmers will have to hand over 50% of land for the scheme for free in lieu of amenities and infrastructure that is touted to be world class.Chief town planner of the NMSCDCL, Kanchan Bodhle said, “Under smart city, we will be developing 754 acre land in these two areas of Dholera and Ahmedabad with as per the development plan. GIS-based survey has also been proposed. We can say how much land can be given back to the owner only after the survey.”Farmers objected to the survey and asked how much floor space index would be given. They also asked why they had to donate 50% of their land while Gujarat farmers donated only 40% and got 1.8 FSI while in Nashik it is 1.5 FSI. The NMSCDCL said that unless the area is not fixed, they would not be able to say anything about FSI.“Greenfield development is being done only in Nashik. In 12 months we can do the TP and in three years the project can be completed. TP scheme is self-sustaining,” chief executive officer of NMSCDCL, Prakash Thavil said.Land owners said that many farmers’ children are not very educated and want to do only farming and also questioned what would happen to the project if the government changed. They said in Dholera, the land was infertile, but it is very fertile land at other places.Sanjay Bagul, one of the land owners said, “The farmers will not give up the lands that provides for them. Why should they bear the burden?”

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