GMADA floats 322-acre Eco City

The Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) is developing a residential scheme for Eco City, Phase-III, for which the land acquisition is currently in full swing. The authority will acquire 322 acres land in six villages for the project in New Chandigarh, chief administrator, GMADA, Ravi Bhagat said that the process has been initiated for the development of New Chandigarh. Now, for developing the residential scheme for Eco City-III, the administration has issued notices for acquisition of land. The GMADA had also called for objections from farmers before sending the acquisition notices in April and also held an open darbar to redress the problems. The land acquisition collector (LAC) said that there were minor objections, which were settled as per the Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) Policy, 2017. Earlier, the GMADA had successfully completed the land acquisition for Eco City-I and II. Planned to the south of MDR-B, Eco City Phase-I is being developed on 400 acres, which has been acquired under 100% land pooling mechanism, thereby, making the farmers as stakeholders.