Real Estate Menace
The Land Acquisition Bill passed by the
members in the parliament promises to provide compensation to the farmers who
lost land their land to various governmental and private constructions. One has
to be clear that the governments swift in how the Neyveli lignite area farmers
were compensated. Government had promised employment but how many got
that. People are highly anxious about
the price rice and soaring inflation but it is worrisome when they are not
aware of the farmer’s distress and not doing enough to protect their rights. Small
farmers are the one who are losing their precious land to real estate mafias in
a quick manner due to debt, failure of agriculture, water scarcity. Various agricultural
lands are being lost by farmers for several purposes of these the real estate
stands foremost in encroaching. Next stands converting the agricultural lands
for infrastructure activities. Our
country’s population growth is increasing at the rate of 2.5% per year, it has
already crossed 121 crore. The large scale migrations of rural people who are
leaving their agricultural land left in fallow searching job in urban areas
finally settle in the urban areas. The increase
of migration puts pressure on the land therefore the cities extending to nearby
areas. It promotes the construction of houses for ever increasing population in
the cities. Large areas fall victim to
the greedy real estate people.
The real estate promoters not only build houses but also
various resorts in the hilly regions of our country, converting the natural
lands into concrete buildings thereby threatening the life of various flora and
fauna of the region and the entire environment into lurch. The Uttarakhand
flood situation is alleged to be man-made disaster, construction of concrete
buildings and resort spas created disequilibrium in that area creating major
havoc of landslides, boulder and rocks displacements. This area will not be used for tourism
purpose for at least 3 years, all because of man’s greed of land acquiring and
accruing wealth. Whenever man plays with
nature the result will be disastrous to human, we have to realize from the
havoc created by Mississippi-Missouri River in the US. So many times dam had
been constructed the turbulent water breaches it every time.
The spurt of real
estate development in India saw a tremendous growth after the period of
liberalization, privatization and globalization in 1991, where government
introduced the LPG. The government broke the monopoly of the public sectors and
government companies which had enjoyed the only single player in the
market. The recent flood in Uttarakhand
depicts the picture of real estate mafia’s encroachment of lands illegally for
their economic benefit paves the way for death of thousands of pilgrimage. The real estate mafia’s amend the law or make
it beneficial to them lobbying politicians who can legislate with environmental
acts and so many acts concerned with protection of nature. The Ministry of Environment and Forest has
given so many clearances to the private people who are constructing illegal
buildings breaching the norms of Government rules and get their protection by
offering huge bribery to the Government officers. The agitation by people is aggravated by the
Judiciaries prejudiced and biased verdicts. The farmers of Uttar Pradesh had protested
against the construction of BUDDH international F-1circuit in their farm land. The person who ordered the shooting of farmers
could be identified by neither the Government officials nor the Judiciary. Whether all the farmers who had lost their
land were compensated or not is not clear, and people are fainted with the
Capitalist sport watching Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel not worrying about
whether the farmers are able to capitalize for their lost land.
The loss of agricultural land and other useful land are
going into the hands of private people who construct building in a large area
using ground water exorbitantly. The
Real Estate advertisements in media is quite watching, i have been watching all
the advertisements where young couple with their beautiful children walking in
the greenery spaces, nearby the swimming pools, doing exercises in the
gymnasium, watching movies in the mini theatre, in a neatly planned area with
ample space for car parking and so many kind of other stuffs which are highly mesmerizing. But no one noticed in those advertisements
what happened to their age old parents.
Whether they are sent to old age home or left alone in the streets is investigable
one. No one has filed any public
interest litigation in the courts which leaves the parents in a family to
frustrate. With the advent of migration in the mega cities the construction of building
is a big business, where so many people have indulged in real estate
activities. The mafia’s can buy the
agricultural land from the poor farmers in a cheap rate and construct huge
buildings and sell individual houses from several lakh of rupees to crores
earning a big profit within a short period of time. The Government on other hand pretends to
restrict the activities of real estate by making laws. The Policy where the politicians make is
studded with so many loopholes where it does not provide any provision for
apprehending the mafias but it will be another chunk of papers which will be
shelved soon once the farmers started protesting against this.
The present condition of real estate enlargement seemed
to be nurtured by the Government itself in the name of infrastructure
building. The change in the unified family
to neutral family is also another factor attributable to the real estate growth. Controlling of population shall be the main
agenda for the government if it intends to reduce the real estate growth. One family one child policy has to be adopted
by the Government. The conversion of
agricultural land must be stopped by enacting legislation. Instead of the government’s approach of
appointing committee to the committee as had been done in the case of Madhav
Gadgil’s committee report reviewed by Kasturirangan committee.
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