NOIDA: Homebuyers of Noida Extension have decided to approach the Allahabad High Court to ask for a time-bound action plan for granting clearance to the Master Plan 2021 of the Greater Noida Authority by the NCR Planning Board. With no response from the planning board, construction activities of the housing projects remain stalled.The Noida Extension Flat Buyers’ Welfare Association (NEFBWA), which had earlier filed a petition in the high court in support of the review petition filed by the Greater Noida Authority, is now filing a revised petition pleading for a deadline to be set on the NCR Planning Board to clear the master plan. The review petition of the Greater Noida Authority, filed in the first week of December last year, pleads for permission to resume developmental activities in Noida Extension, even as the NCRPB has kept postponing the matter.”The petition is ready and will be filed by February 10,” said GL Sagar, secretary of NEFBWA. “Earlier, the hearing for the case was scheduled to be held on February 7, but owing to some issues, the petition is now set to come up for hearing on February 17. In the revised petition, we have pleaded with the court to impose a deadline on the NCRPB to grant clearance to the master plan,” added Sagar.
The verdict delivered by the Allahabad High Court on October 21 last year had directed the Greater Noida Authority to properly implement the suggestions and recommendations of the NCRPB into its Master Plan 2021 before re-commencing developmental activities in the region. However, the high court had not set a deadline on the NCRPB by which it would have to get its recommendations properly implemented into the master plan, and communicate the same to the Greater Noida Authority. The Greater Noida Authority had sent its master plan to the NCRPB subsequent to the clearance granted to it by the UP regional planning board. To the dismay of thousands of homebuyers, who have invested huge sums of money in various residential projects of Noida Extension, the NCRPB has been dragging its feet over clearing the master plan, thereby putting in limbo all the semi-constructed housing projects.
The hearing on February 17 will be done by the same three-judge bench formed by the high court to hear into cases related to land acquisition in villages of Greater Noida. The bench will hear the petition when it takes up the hearing of several petitions filed by farmers from villages of Greater Noida and along the Yamuna Expressway contesting against land acquisition.
Ayaskant DasAyaskant Das, TNN | Feb 8, 2012, 01.52AM IST
