Nainital: In a setback to the Uttarakhand government, the High Court has cancelled the controversial Rishikesh housing project and said that an inquiry may be ordered in this regard.
An NDTV report had earlier exposed how rules were flouted to facilitate the housing project and its promoters.
The court said that bureaucrats had misled the government to get land transferred to a private developer. The court also rejected the demand for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry which Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank had been keen on.
Last year, the state government gave permission to Mumbai-based Citurgia Biochemical Limited, which was producing chemical carbonate at its Rishikesh plant, to sell a big chunk of its land to a private developer for constructing a housing project. A lockout was declared in the Citurgia factory in 2003 after it became sick and the matter was referred to the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR).
Though the government claimed that permission for the housing project was accorded under a BIFR revival scheme, opposition parties and NGOs had cast aspersions saying there is no permission for constructing a housing project along the river on environmental grounds.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/high-court-cancels-rishikesh-housing-project-75574
An NDTV report had earlier exposed how rules were flouted to facilitate the housing project and its promoters.
The court said that bureaucrats had misled the government to get land transferred to a private developer. The court also rejected the demand for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry which Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank had been keen on.
Last year, the state government gave permission to Mumbai-based Citurgia Biochemical Limited, which was producing chemical carbonate at its Rishikesh plant, to sell a big chunk of its land to a private developer for constructing a housing project. A lockout was declared in the Citurgia factory in 2003 after it became sick and the matter was referred to the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR).
Though the government claimed that permission for the housing project was accorded under a BIFR revival scheme, opposition parties and NGOs had cast aspersions saying there is no permission for constructing a housing project along the river on environmental grounds.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/high-court-cancels-rishikesh-housing-project-75574
