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This ground report from Jewar examines how land turned into money, how money changed lives, and how the absence of financial planning may have left many with nothing.
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00:00I got a phone when I got a phone, when I got a phone, I got a $90,000.
00:03Now I have money for display and temper and I have money for the time.
00:06I have finished it and I have to go on it and I have to go on it and I have to go on it.
00:12Sir, we have to charge you for going to the house.
00:14We don't have money to save you.
00:17Where do we save you?
00:18One TV, iPhone 11 Pro Max.
00:21What are you doing now?
00:22Now I am running Android Vivo.
00:24This is the end of the day.
00:26We are playing all the time.
00:28This is the end of the day.
00:30This is the biggest school of Javar.
00:34We have made 12,000 acres of land for Javar Airport.
00:40And the 12,000 acres of India's largest airport in Javar came from local farmers,
00:45many of whom received crores in compensation.
00:48But what happened after the money came in?
00:52We travelled to one such village in Javar to find out how land turned into money
00:57and how money reshaped everything that followed.
01:02Let's get this straight.
01:03This is not a hotel lobby where I am standing.
01:06This is in fact a house in a village in Javar owned by one of the farmers
01:11who actually became rich after selling his land for the Javar International Airport.
01:16This is a hotel lobby, so you will see that.
01:18This is not for the money.
01:19How did you get a house in Javar?
01:20That's it.
01:21I got a house.
01:22What?
01:22I got a house.
01:24Which one?
01:25I got a house.
01:26It's about $18,000.
01:27Yes.
01:28How did you get a house?
01:30$3,60,000.
01:31How much?
01:32Used to get $3 million in your children.
01:35No.
01:35You get a house in the house with five people.
01:37$3 million.
01:38Do you have a house?
01:40Look.
01:40Look.
01:41$3 million in your children.
01:42It's a house.
01:44Look.
01:45Look.
01:45and you can see it until the end of the year.
01:49Have you seen it?
01:51Yes.
01:53It's different from 4 months to 4 months.
01:57Sir, where are you selling your house?
02:00We are selling milk, dealing with delivery.
02:03We are selling our lives.
02:05How many cars are there?
02:07Yes.
02:09We have bought many cars, but at the time there are two cars.
02:12Let's go and see it.
02:24Yes, it's good. It's the king of the king.
02:27It's not the same thing.
02:29So, do you call your husband?
02:31Yes, it's also a husband.
02:34Where is the husband?
02:36It's a husband.
02:38It's a husband.
02:40I'm in the 9th class.
02:44I'm going to go to the school.
02:46It's the biggest school.
02:48It's the first school.
02:50But when the land is done, it's more good.
02:53While this man invested his money wisely, multiplied it and now lives comfortably and happily with his family, there is another section of the same property.
03:10While this man invested his money wisely, multiplied it and now lives comfortably and
03:20happily with his family, there is another section of the same colony that I have visited
03:25and their story was very different.
03:27Even after receiving crores in compensation, they spent it all quickly and they are now
03:31unhappy, idle and directionless.
03:34I even saw some people gambling and wasting their time instead of working to support their
03:39families.
03:40They claim that they are now left with nothing and are forced to cut down on very luxuries
03:45they once bought when the money came in as a lump sum.
04:10We are now left with two of us.
04:11Are you going to sell it?
04:12Yes, but we are going to sell it.
04:15You are going to sell it for the farm.
04:18You are going to sell it with the farm?
04:20Yes, it is.
04:21Do you have money?
04:22Yes, you have money.
04:23How much money did you get?
04:25How much money did you get?
04:26How much money did you get?
04:27I got two crores.
04:28What did you do?
04:29I got a family of the farm.
04:31I got a family of the farm.
04:32I got a house.
04:33You have a house.
04:34How much money did you get?
04:35No, this is a small house.
04:37This is a small house.
04:39This is not a small house.
04:41This is not a small house.
04:43This is not a small house.
04:44We got two crores and 40 lakh rupees.
04:46If you have money, it will be cut off.
04:47Now, we have to cut the farm.
05:01When we get the farm, I am going to get $90,000.
05:04Where do you get this?
05:05Where do we get the farm?
05:06Where do we get the farm?
05:07How do we get the farm?
05:09Why do we get the farm?
05:10there we go in the car.
05:13We have a current tour, we have a charge in the car.
05:17We have to study in three, if we don't have enough money,
05:20we don't have enough jobs.
05:21And we will see that the car will be delivered.
05:25What do you do now?
05:27I don't know, we don't do anything, we don't do anything.
05:30Once the camera goes, all the people are watching.
05:37What have you done, qualification?
05:39I am a maker.
05:40What do you do now?
05:42I play a task.
05:47You are running away from the baby.
05:52What are you doing?
05:53Nothing.
05:54No.
05:55No.
05:56No.
05:57No.
05:58No.
05:59No.
06:00No.
06:01No.
06:02No.
06:03No.
06:04No.
06:05No.
06:06No.
06:07No.
06:08A rewind to the first phase of land acquisition shows that farmers who gave up their land
06:13early received 20 lakh rupees per bigha.
06:15By the fourth phase, compensation had risen to around 40 lakh rupees per bigha.
06:20Now, farmers from the earlier phases are demanding higher compensation, saying they cannot sustain
06:25themselves any longer.
06:26They are having 20 lakh rupees per bigha, and more money will give them.
06:35What will they do?
06:36That will also be finished?
06:37Why?
06:38They will be finished.
06:39What do they do?
06:40make a place.
06:43Now the money is getting.
06:45Every day we will open up a house.
06:47No one will do anything.
06:49Why didn't you do it?
06:51When the money was there,
06:53one of the parents was 2.4 million dollars.
06:55We were 4-5 brothers.
06:57How much is it?
06:58It's very difficult.
07:00When the Adhigran was not there,
07:02at that time was 1.800 per meter.
07:06Today it was 1.800 per meter.
07:09At that time,
07:11the Bazaar Mulek and Nuroop
07:13had a disaster.
07:15And since it was the first phase,
07:18I don't think that
07:21the conditions could increase.
07:24So the question remains,
07:26once the compensation was credited to their accounts,
07:28who bears the responsibility for what followed?
07:31The farmers themselves or the authority
07:33that acquired the land.
07:34I started using an iPhone.
07:36I also used an Android.
07:38I used an Android for the children.
07:41I used an iPhone.
07:42I used an Android for the two cars.
07:44We used to work with one car.
07:45We were staying in the streets.
07:46We were staying in the streets.
07:47We didn't have one car.
07:48We had to change the time.
07:49You have been doing this.
07:50You have been doing this.
07:51You have increased your needs.
07:52You have increased your needs.
07:54We were living in the streets.
07:56In the streets.
07:57And similarly,
07:58with bad habits like drinking.
08:00But it is very natural for people to be blinded.
08:04With all these luxuries,
08:06which were,
08:07which 30, 40 years back,
08:09people used to,
08:10not even been able to dream.
08:11All that we can do is issue advisories.
08:14We can tell people to use their money wisely.
08:16We can even start campaigns.
08:18The block development officers
08:20and the subdivisional officers
08:21can go there and talk to them.
08:23Please use your money wisely
08:24because after all,
08:25money doesn't stay forever.
08:27Well, Jever tells a hard truth.
08:29I spoke to many families
08:30and one thing is clear.
08:32Crores came in.
08:332 crore,
08:345 crore,
08:35even more.
08:36But for many families,
08:37even more would have disappeared
08:39the same way.
08:40Even if it was given today.
08:42Today, the divide is clear.
08:44The contrast is stark.
08:46A few planned,
08:47invested and moved ahead.
08:48While many spent first
08:50and thought later.
08:51Money didn't vanish on its own.
08:53It was spent willingly without a plan.
08:56In the end,
08:57in my view,
08:58compensation didn't fail here.
09:00Choices did.
09:01What are your thoughts?
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