Local People Continue Protest Against Acquisition of Land in Azara, Guwahati

GUWAHATI: Local people in Azara, near Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (LGBI) Airport, Guwahati continue to protest against the land acquisition step taken by the state government.

As per reports, the Kamrup (M) administration has served a notice to evacuate 55 bigha land near the LGBI Airport. However, the people who own the land clarified that they would not evacuate their land under any circumstance.

"We have been served a notice to evacuate 55 bigha land near the Airport. We heard that the Adani group which has been given charge of the Airport for 50 years under a lease agreement by the Government of India wants to do expansion work here. But we want to clarify that we will not leave our land even if we are given adequate compensation". said a local people.

Some other people in the area also said that they will not hand over their land to the Adani group.

"In 2018, in a meeting with the district administration, we accepted their proposal to give permission to uproot or cut our trees. Since then, they have been cutting our trees. But we will not give our land to them," they said.

Some local women also categorically stated that they are ready to become daily wage earners but never give their land.

On the other hand, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the people who lose their land for the airport expansion work would receive such monetary compensation which will be more than four times the actual price of their land.

"It is a government acquisition. Not eviction. They will get such price which will be more than 4 times of the actual price of the land", the chief minister added.

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