UTTAR PRADESH
- UP govt to adopt land pooling policy to boost infra development in state
- The Uttar Pradesh government will soon adopt land pooling policy to give fillip to urban infrastructure in the state. This will spare the government of land acquisition hurdles which is not only an expensive proposition but is also cumbersome and time taking. The UP cabinet recently gave its approval for adopting land pooling policy in place of land acquisition.
- For the last one year the UP government was studying land pooling police employed by states like Gujarat and Maharashtra.
- Policy development authority will exhort farmers to part away parcels of agricultural land to create a land pool which will the development agency will develop from agricultural holdings to urban infrastructure to cater to the needs of growing urbanisation, including housing.
- The logic behind this adopting land pooling policy that it will spare development authorities and government from investing huge amount of money in form the land acquisition which nowadays have become very expensive.