Vaghela identified that affected farmers have complained to him that the land acquisition GPS coordinates, as proven in unique maps, weren’t included in a gazette notification dated August 23, 2022 issued through the Ministry Of Highway Shipping And Highways (MoRTH). The notification had introduced the federal government’s intent to obtain lands in Gandhinagar district for construction a six or eight-lane greenfield throughway.

Vaghela stated the unique plan concerned a immediately line of coordinates, which required fewer agricultural lands to be got, however with the modified coordinates, the direction now contains turns and leads to “extra land acquisition of farmers in bulk.”

Chatting with The Indian Categorical, Vaghela stated the sort of alternate will have been on account of “political, social or spiritual drive” as the unique map’s direction coordinates concerned land parcels measuring 300-400 acres underneath a temple’s possession.

The illustration additionally refers back to the farmers’ agitation in Gujarat prior to now “as a result of agriculture-adverse insurance policies and selections of the federal government” and advised Gadkari that ignoring the farmers’ pleas would possibly cause any other stir.

The gazette notification lists survey and plot numbers, form of land (non-public or govt), nature of land (agricultural or non-agricultural) and the realm of the stated land parcels. It additionally notes that anyone within the stated land would possibly object to its use for the challenge “inside twenty-one days from the date of newsletter of this notification within the Legit Gazette”.

“Each and every such objection can be made to the Competent Authority, specifically, Sub Divisional Justice of the Peace & Prant Officer, Dehgam in writing and shall set out the grounds thereof and the Competent Authority shall give the objector a chance of being heard… and after making additional enquiry… both permit or disallow the objections,” it added.