Want to expedite Jewar airport to wash rape taint off town, says Yogi Adityanath

  • | Thursday | 20th September, 2018

He quoted the chief minister as saying that the earlier SP and BSP regimes had created an environment that was not conducive to industry. This, he said, would enable the state government to start the land acquisition process for the project. A case in point, the chief minister told the meeting, was Maruti, which chose Gurgaon over Noida to set up a plant.“A spate of crime incidents left industrialists in both Noida and Greater Noida in fear. The Maruti project, which could have given employment to scores of youth, too, slipped out of GB Nagar to Gurugram. While the scrap dealer was shot dead, three female members of his family were gang-raped at gunpoint.“That incident brought a bad name to the district.

LUCKNOW/GREATER NOIDA: Jewar MLA Dhirendra Singh , who had accompanied a group of farmers to meet the chief minister in Lucknow, said on Wednesday that Yogi Adityanath had told them he wanted to expedite the Jewar airport project to wash the taint of last year’s gang rape off the town.On the night of May 25, 2017, a six-member family of a scrap dealer travelling in a Maruti Eeco was waylaid by a gang on the Jewar-Bulandshahr road. While the scrap dealer was shot dead, three female members of his family were gang-raped at gunpoint.“That incident brought a bad name to the district. The CM wants to wash that off,” he told reporters in Lucknow.Singh, who led a group of 26 farmers from Jewar, also said the chief minister had assured the landlosers that they would be rehabilitated with a proper compensation.The MLA said he had been mediating between the government and farmers to bring “good fortune” to the district. He quoted the chief minister as saying that the earlier SP and BSP regimes had created an environment that was not conducive to industry. A case in point, the chief minister told the meeting, was Maruti, which chose Gurgaon over Noida to set up a plant.“A spate of crime incidents left industrialists in both Noida and Greater Noida in fear. Many of them refused to set up factories because of the law and order problem. The Maruti project, which could have given employment to scores of youth, too, slipped out of GB Nagar to Gurugram. All that needs to be changed,” Singh quoted Adityanath as saying. “Today, farmers are ready to give their land for the Jewar airport, which would not only put the district but also the state on a higher trajectory of development,” Singh added.The MLA was accompanied to Lucknow by Bhawan Singh, the pradhan of Rohi village, where residents had refused to part with their land a month ago unless they were given four times the compensation.Senior government officials, including the chairman of the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority, Prabhat Kumar, were present in the meeting that lasted for 45 minutes.Singh claimed that at least 75% of the farmers in Rohi had agreed to give their land . This, he said, would enable the state government to start the land acquisition process for the project.

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