Noida Sep 29 PTI The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority GNIDA on Wednesday said it has expedited the process for lease back of land of 1451 villagers in Greater Noida as it received a go-ahead from the Uttar Pradesh government GNIDA CEO Narendra Bhooshan said the state government had formed a Special Investigation Team SIT to ascertain the ownership claims on the land parcels which had been notified by the authority for acquisition On the basis of SITs report the government has given permission to the GNIDA to lease back the abaadi land to 1451 farmers These farmers had been demanding from the authority for a long time to lease back the population Bhooshan said The authority had also been advocating in the favour of the villagers At present lease back will be done in the name of 1451 farmers The SIT has sought the district administrations report on the claims of the remaining 533 villagers over the issue Once that is done the government would take a decision on their claims too he said The senior officer said the GNIDA has expedited work for leasing back the abaadi land to the 1451 villagers and urged the rightful owners to follow the set procedures to complete the process without difficulty According to people privy to the conflict around 2000 people from over 40 villages in Greater Noida had been protesting against the incorrect acquisition of their abaadi land around 2010 and 2011 Several of them had also moved the Allahabad High Court over the years to retain the ownership of their land in these villages The UP government had formed a special investigation team SIT to probe the legal ownership of the land which had been acquired as some abaadi areas were also wrongly notified for acquisition leading to a situation of conflict between the villagers and GNIDA they said The SIT was formed and probe done amid claims that over the years many native villagers had sold their land to outsiders who were getting the lease back benefit instead of the original owners they added PTI KIS AQS AQS

Noida Sep 29 PTI The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority GNIDA on Wednesday said it has removed a mobile phone tower that was being installed on the roof of a house in a village in Greater Noida without due approvals The action has been taken in pursuance of an order of the Allahabad High Court the GNIDA said warning people against violating guidelines on installation of mobile phone towers without its approval The tower was being installed in Khedi village without permission Some nearby residents had petitioned the High Court seeking the removal of the tower from the residential area GNIDA CEO Narendra Bhooshan said Acting on the order of the court the team of Work Circle 2 of Greater Noida Authority has removed the mobile tower Bhooshan said Officials said permission to install a mobile tower in Greater Noida has to be taken from the local authority and there are certain criteria and a fixed fee on the basis of which approval is granted Like such installations can only be made in certain areas and against Rs 1 lakh fee to be paid by the applicant to the GNIDA If the tower has already been installed and permission sought later then Rs 15 lakh fee would be charged the officials said Mobile phone towers can be allowed only on buildings located in community centres shopping centres commercial institutional and industrial sectors green belts etc as decided by the Planning Department and are not allowed on residential buildings GNIDA said PTI KIS AQS AQS

Noida Sep 29 PTI Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has assured that issues of farmers and homebuyers here will be included in the manifesto for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls party office-bearers said here on Wednesday Farmers from villages in Noida and Greater Noida have been protesting for a long time over various demands including hiked compensation for their land while thousands of homebuyers are suffering due to a delay of several years in getting possession of their flats they said The deputy chief of the partys social media unit in the state Pankhuri Pathak and leader Anil Yadav in Lucknow met Priyanka who is on a five-day tour of Uttar Pradesh Various issues concerning Noida were discussed during the meeting and we apprised them of the problems of the residents here These include the continued protest by farmers and the homebuyers as well Pathak said Priyankaji has assured that all these issues would be taken up by the party in the coming days for their resolution She also said these issues would be included in the Congress manifesto for the upcoming polls she added Yadav said during the meeting the party general secretary also raised concern over the growing unemployment poor law and order situation and women safety issues in the state She has instructed party workers in Noida to keep raising these issues particularly concerning unemployment and women safety he said PTI KIS RDK RDK

Noida Sep 29 PTI Two suspected mobile phone snatchers on the prowl were arrested in Noida after a gunfight with the police on Wednesday morning in which one of them suffered gunshot injury officials said Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Noida Ranvijay Singh said the gunfight broke out near a hotel in Sector 56 when the duo on a motorcycle were intercepted by officials of the Sector 58 police station The accused were speeding away on their motorcycle which did not have any registration number on it but were surrounded by police teams They opened gunfire on the police personnel in order to escape but one of them got hit in retaliatory firing and was held The other managed to run away from the spot but was arrested later Singh said The injured accused was sent to a hospital for treatment and later taken into police custody the police said The duo have been identified as Rohit Singh and Siddharth both in their twenties and residents of Morna village in Noida the police said Rohit has seven FIRs related to snatching and theft among others lodged against him at various police stations in Noida while Siddharth faces four cases they said After the encounter on Wednesday the police seized four stolen mobile phones and a country-made pistol along with some bullets from their possession and impounded their motorcycle PTI KIS SMN SMN

Noida Sep 28 PTI Residents of Greater Noida might start getting Ganga water by the end of this year ending their dependence on the groundwater officials said on Tuesday The supply will be made under a special Rs 800-crore project said officials of the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority GNIDA The project was started in 2010 and has missed several deadlines over the years GNIDA CEO Narendra Bhooshan on Tuesday inspected the master reservoir and reviewed the progress of the project which is in its final stages Preparations are underway to soon bring 85 cusecs of Ganga water to Greater Noida through the Ganges canal About Rs 800 crore are being spent on this project and it is expected that the Ganga water would reach Greater Noida homes by the end of this year Bhooshan said With the supply of Ganga water the residents of Greater Noida will be able to get sweet water At present water supply in Greater Noida is being done from groundwater only he added The CEO also directed the officials to beautify the area around the master reservoir with more greenery and by putting wires and cables underground He also instructed them to engrave the story of the descent of the Ganga as per mythologies on the walls of the reservoir complex so that people could be made aware of the Ganga and its purity the GNIDA said in a statement GNIDA General Manager A K Arora Deputy GM Salil Yadav and senior managers Kapil Dev Singh and Rajiv Kumar were present during the CEOs visit to the reservoir PTI KIS AQS AQS

Noida Sep 28 PTI Tension prevailed in Greater Noida on Tuesday after the name of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was allegedly smeared with black paint on a plaque fixed below a statue of King Mihir Bhoj that he had unveiled last weekBesides Adityanath the names of Rajya Sabha MP Surendra Singh Nagar and Dadri MLA Tejpal Nagar both from the BJP were also smeared with black paint on the plaque according to purported visuals that surfaced on social mediaPolice have launched an investigation into the act which has been allegedly committed by some members of the Gurjar community who have been at loggerhead with the Rajput community with both claiming that the ninth-century king belonged to their caste officials saidThe chief minister had unveiled the 15-foot-tall statue of the king in Greater Noidas Dadri area in Gautam Buddh Nagar district on September 22 A conflict had ensued over addition of prefix Gurjar to the name of King Mihir Bhoj on the plaquePrior to the event also tension had been brewing in the region due to the conflict between the two dominant Rajput and Gurjar communities over the issue while CM Adityanath had remarked that great icons cannot be confined to one caste they belong to everyone after unveiling the statueThe smearing of black paint over the names on the plaque allegedly took place after Rajya Sabha MP Surendra Singh Nagar visited the statue and paid tributes to King Mihir Bhoj on Tuesday morningSatyamev Jayate Nagar a Gurjar leader captioned a picture of him standing next to the statue in a Twitter post in the morningMeanwhile an official said the local Dadri police have been instructed to lodge an FIR into Tuesdays incident and take action against the culprits PTI KIS DV DV

Noida Sep 27 PTI Two persons including a Community Health Centre CHC official were arrested on Monday for allegedly administering COVID-19 vaccines illegally in a door-to-door campaign in Greater Noida police saidAdditional Deputy Commissioner of Police Central Noida Ankur Aggarwal said the duo was held by officials of Ecotech 3 police station after a complaint was received against themSome Covaxin and Covishield vials along with some syringes have been recovered from their possession The vials look original but have been sent for forensic test to ascertain if they are actual vaccines Aggarwal saidCHC Bisrakh officials had informed the police about an illegal door-to-door vaccination campaign being carried out in the villages in the area by the accused persons he saidAction was taken immediately and accused Sushil and Ravi Kumar arrested the officer said According to the police 19 vials of the vaccines including Covaxin and Covishield were seized from the duo along with 155 syringes of which 30 were usedAdditional DCP Aggarwal said a probe is underway to find out from where the two procured the vaccinesAn FIR has been lodged and further legal proceedings are underway the police added PTI KIS KJ KJ

Noida Sep 27 PTI Hundreds of people from various villages here and a large number of police personnel were involved in a confrontation on Tuesday during a demonstration over land compensation outside the Noida Authority Office on Delhis outskirts coinciding with the Bharat Bandh call given by farmer unions against the Centres three agri lawsThe protestors mostly supporters of the Bharatiya Kisan Parishad have been staging a sit-in outside the Noida Authoritys office for the past several days over a host of demands including hiked compensation for their land acquired by the governmentPolice officials said that security had been heightened in the area in view of the ongoing protest and barricades were also set up to prevent the protestors from moving towards the Authoritys office in Sector 6While trying to pacify the demonstrators led by farmer leader Sukhvir Pahalwan Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Noida Ranvijay Singh asked them not to take the law into their handsYou have all the right to hold a protest but you should also be thoughtful of your actions causing problems to other people affecting their movement Singh told the protestors including several womenWe do not expect you to take the situation to a point wherein the police would be required to use force or initiate legal action against you all because that is not going to help anyone the officer addedThis protest by the Bharatiya Kisan Parishad is not linked with the bigger ongoing farmers stir against the three contentious farm laws but is related to the residents of 81 villages of Noida whose land has been acquired in the past PTI KIS RT RT

Noida Sep 24 PTI The Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday seized over 250 kilograms of cannabis in Greater Noida and arrested six people officials saidThe total value of the contraband seized by the STFs Noida unit is estimated to be worth Rs 125 crore they saidWe had been working on cases related to drug trafficking We had got an input about a drug consignment being transported today from Lucknow to Surajpur in Greater Noida in a vehicleThe cannabis was supposed to be moved from one vehicle to another in Greater Noida before being sent off to some other location Additional Superintendent of Police STF Raj Kumar Mishra said On the basis of a specific input about this movement the Noida unit of the STF seized the consignment of 251 kg cannabis in a pick-up truck and arrested six persons involved in the trafficking Mishra said Those held have been identified as Firoz Khan Amit Sahani Jitendra Kumar Mahesh Yadav Sachin Kumar and Sonu Singh the STF saidAn FIR has been lodged at the Surajpur police station and further legal proceedings are underway it added PTI KIS TDS TDS

Noida Sep 23 PTI Improper disposal of waste on Thursday landed two housing societies in the net of the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority which has slapped penalties on both for violation of norms after surprise inspection officials saidThe inspection was carried out by the health department on instructions of GNIDA CEO Narendra Bhooshan as the authority continued to take action against entities over waste management they saidIn pursuance of the instructions surprise inspections were held at Express Park View II society in Sector Chi 5 where waste material was found strewn haphazardly The society was issued a fine of Rs 52200 for not conforming to the norms on waste disposal the GNIDA saidAnother violation regarding waste disposal was found at Anand Aashray society in Sector Phi 2 which has been issued a fine of Rs 12200 the authority said in a statementDeputy General Manager Health Department Salil Yadav asked both societies to remit the penalty amount within three working days failing which legal action would be initiated against themHe also asked the societies to get waste properly managed and warned them of doubling the penalty amount for repeat offencesCiting rules the GNIDA said bulk waste generators like housing societies are supposed to manage proper disposal of their garbage on their own and the authority will only pick up inert waste and that too against a fixed monthly feePTI KIS SRY