By Team Homes | Monday, 08 January 2024

Acquisition of Land starts for 'New Kanpur City' Project

Kanpur Development Authority (KDA), an urban development authority of Kanpur Metropolitan area starts purchasing land from tenant farmers for the flagship project ‘New Kanpur City’. As much as six tenant farmers vended their land and Kanpur Development Authority paid them four times of circle rates as price of property.

The first registry of the land was executed by one private tenant farmer Ketaki Kushwaha in favor of KDA. And in response, vice chairman KDA Vishak G Iyer handed her a draft of sale consideration and a box of sweets. Afterward five more private tenant farmers sold and executed the registry of their land in support of KDA.

The plan of New Kanpur City was started by the Kanpur Development Authority about 27 years ago. But due to various reasons this plan could not be started on moment.

Right now, with the extraordinary and constant efforts of the Vice President, this flagship scheme ‘New Kanpur City’ is being brought to the ground with the purchasing of land.

The flagship project “New Kanpur City” has been proposed by the KDA in an area of 153.21 hectares located in villages namely Singhpur Kachar, Sambharpur, Gangpur Chakbada and Hindupur between Mainawati Marg and Kalyanpur Bithoor Road. The outstanding features of this scheme are that the number of residential plots is about 1350, with area between 90 square meters to 450 square meters and total number of commercial plots is approximately 222. In adding up to the commercial plots, group housing malls and institutional plots will be available in this project.

On speaking to this, “Vishak G Iyer, Vice chairman, KDA says, “The implementation of New Kanpur City Plan would prove to be very useful for the general public as well as the businessmen of Kanpur”.