TNN | Updated: Jul 24, 2019, 12:08
IST
GANDHINAGAR: The state government admitted in the
house on Tuesday that about 2,560 hectares of Gaucher land were encroached in
the state. Of this, the government has removed encroachment from 764.37
hectares of land, while another 1,742.07 hectare of land is still encroached .
The government said that it has not formed any gauchar encroachment cell, but there is a district encroachment department which is taking care of gauchar encroachments.
During the discussion, Independent MLA from Vadgam Jignesh Mevani alleged that the government had allotted guachar land to many SEZs. He alleged that there has been encroachment on gauchar land in Jamnagar, Bhavnagar among other places as well. The state government admitted in the state assembly that it has given 13.44 crore sq meters of gauchar land, government wasteland and even government land either on rent or has sold the same for industrial development.
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