Rehab package for Bidadi ryots to determine builder

Rehab package for Bidadi ryots to determine builder
The Times of India

Bangalore: The ambitious Bidadi township project — proposed by BMRDA — is already facing roadblocks. The CM is keen to see the project through as it comes within his constituency, notwithstanding protesting farmers who will be displaced. On the other hand, the rehabilitation package will determine the prospects of the developer who will bag this work contract.
The big-ticket township project will have to be dovetailed with a robust rehabilitation package if developers have to weather the storm raised by farmers. The project will displace 12,000 farmers.
This time, the rehabilitation package component will be taken as a major parameter to decide on the work contract.
Unlike every other land acquisition process — where compensation is the only source of relief — in Bidadi township, a complete rehabilitation package is being chalked out which aims at integrating land losers with the township.
According to sources, the government is looking at a compensation of an average Rs 30 lakh per acre depending on the location of the land. Hence the compensation component for the Rs 50,000 crore project involving 10,000 acres of land is Rs 3,000 crore.
The developers have to draw the package with compensation, relocation along with jobs and housing facilities for the displaced.
“After the technical and financial bids, it is the rehabilitation package which is also a qualifying factor,’’ sources informed.
The project located 35-km from Bangalore will cover eight villages — Byramangala, Bannigiri, Hosur, KG Gollarapalya, Kanchugaranahalli, Aralalasandra, Kempaiahnapalya and Kaval.
Recently, the BMRDA had opened the ‘request for qualification bids’ in which 32 consortia had participated.
However, the farmers are opposing the project and this time, the protest is going strong by the day.
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