Vedanta University land acquisition hits a hurdle; hopefully a small one
Following are excerpts from a report in Telegraph on this.
The state government had initiated the land acquiring process with a 28.30-acre patch under Beladala mouza in the marine drive region.
Sun Green Valley, a tourism promoting company, moved the court challenging the state government’s decision and sought a stay on the allotment of the land to Vedanta Resources Corporation.
Yashobant Das, the counsel for Sun Green Valley, pointed out in the court that a tourism promoting project envisaging a water park and a museum was underway on the 28.30 acre of land when the government issued a notification for acquiring it for the proposed university. Though an appeal was filed for cancellation of the notification, the government turned it down.
The next hearing of the case would take place on November 14, the two-judge bench said, ordering an injunction on the land acquiring process for the proposed university till further orders.
The court also called for submission of the MoU signed between the Anil Agarwal Foundation and the state government to set up the university while issuing notices to the Puri collector.
Other news reports state that the stay order is only for those 28.30 acres. If that is the case then it is a comparatively small hurdle as Vedanta University can continue with its land acquisition sans this particular piece. However, if the stay order is for the whole land acquisition process then it would cause delay to the whole process. Following is Sambada’s report on this.
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