00:00This is the newly inaugurated Delhi Dehradun Expressway
00:02and right along this expressway is Swabiman,
00:05the house of a farmer who refused to sell his land
00:07which has stalled a part of the project.
00:10It looks very haunted at the moment.
00:12You can spot this house while travelling on the Delhi Dehradun Expressway
00:17over Loni in Ghaziabad.
00:20So right behind me is the service lane
00:21which was supposed to connect the people of Loni and Mandola
00:24to the Delhi Dehradun Expressway.
00:26But if we take just a few steps on this service road
00:28you can see that there is no route.
00:31Because the house comes in between.
00:35So I finally found someone
00:37who is living inside this house.
00:40What do you do here?
00:41A guard.
00:41What do you live here?
00:42I live here in Malik Neota.
00:44What are your demands primarily?
00:46What do you think is that
00:48if you give money from the rent rate
00:49or if you give money from the rent rate
00:50or if you give money from the rent.
00:52According to reports,
00:53the dispute leads back to 1998
00:55when the UP Housing Board acquired land from farmers in six villages
00:59for a government housing scheme.
01:00While most accepted the compensation,
01:03the owner of this house refused.
01:04The matter then went to court.
01:15According to the Times of India,
01:17when the corridor project was announced in 2020,
01:19the UP Housing Board allowed an HAI to proceed without the land
01:22even as the litigation remained unresolved.
01:32The homeowner's mother said the compensation being offered today
01:35is based on land rates set in 1998.
01:55We spoke to an official of UP Avas Vikas Parishid,
01:59the authority responsible for acquiring the land for the project.
02:09The authorities have found a way around the house.
02:11There is a road right behind this house
02:14that takes this long elaborate route
02:17that you can see right in front
02:19which then merges into the expressway.
02:22So had there been no Swabhimaan in the way,
02:25the service road would have simply connected
02:27to the Delhi Dehradun expressway right behind me.
02:32No.
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