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Farmers oppose bullet train project

19/09/2018 14:40:00

Ahmedabad : About 1000 farmers affected by the proposed Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project submitted affidavits in the Gujarat High Court, voicing their opposition to the project.
A division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice V M Pancholi is hearing five petitions challenging the land acquisition process for the high speed rail project. Besides these petitioners 1,000 farmers submitted separate affidavits to make a point that many more cultivators are affected by this project.The Supreme Court had directed the high court to expeditiously hear matters of the bullet train-affected farmers. For the project, around 1,400 hectares of land will be acquired in Gujarat and Maharashtra, 1,120 hectares of which is privately owned. Around 6,000 land owners will have to be compensated.

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