Maharashtra: As Ajit Pawar’s finance dept objects, Cabinet says no to land for state BJP chief trust

The gross department, which is headed by Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil of the BJP, has present instructed the spot to travel authorities process for allocation of onshore to nationalist trusts.

When contacted, Bawankule said it was an aged spot and helium was the president for lone 2 years. “This is not a idiosyncratic matter. I americium moving for a spiritual cause. This is noble work. Our spot volition wage the acceptable reckoner complaint of the land, and instrumentality it connected lease. This volition not beryllium my idiosyncratic property,” helium said.

He declined to remark connected the concern department’s remarks, saying it was administrative work. “We volition not beryllium doing immoderate amerciable enactment and volition travel each rule,” helium said.

The contented dates backmost to November 29, 2023, erstwhile the spot had sought the onshore done its secretary, Dattuji Samaritkar, for constructing a inferior college, science-arts-commerce college, and method and nursing acquisition assemblage arsenic accomplishment improvement centres.

In its enactment successful Marathi to the Cabinet connected Monday, the concern section referred to the guidelines for allotment of onshore for social, educational, wellness and foundation purposes, arsenic elaborate successful the gross department’s argumentation dated July 25, 2019.

“…as per constituent 10, the said spot is not progressive successful probe activities. However, it works for divyang and deprived sections of society… (the work) is successful betwixt and based connected the situation… the said enactment does not necessitate imperishable land,” it said.

It besides referred to constituent 11, which is related to proceedings for allotment of onshore for acquisition institutions progressive successful higher and method education.

“As per the study from District Collector, Nagpur, process to initiate inferior assemblage and science-arts-commerce assemblage nether Shri Mahalaxmi Jagdamba Sansthan, Koradi, is underway… arsenic per the report, the said spot does not look to beryllium progressive successful higher and method education,” the concern section said successful its note, portion besides pointing retired that Bawankule is the president of the trust.

The spot “does not suffice the criterion of being a renowned instauration for which objection tin beryllium made… Based connected this, the concern section opposes the nonstop allotment of onshore to the said trust,” it said.

Following the concern department’s objections, the gross section changed its archetypal connection connected allotment of land, and directed the spot to travel the process arsenic mandated by the argumentation instead.

According to the 2019 policy, aft listing the disposable onshore parcels, the territory collector volition contiguous a connection for imaginable usage of land, which volition beryllium scrutinised by the authorities government. After the conditions for allotment are finalised, the territory collector volition question applications by publishing advertisements.

The collector’s bureau volition transportation retired the superior scrutiny of applications, pursuing which a shortlist volition beryllium sent to the divisional commissioner, who volition past guardant it to the government.

However, immoderate tin suffice for “direct allotment”, including individuals with exceptional qualities, renowned organisations, those progressive successful probe activities, moving for divyang and deprived individuals, and acquisition institutions progressive successful higher and method acquisition who necessitate adjacent authorities onshore parcels.

There person been cases successful the past erstwhile the Cabinet has overruled the concern department’s objections, to wide onshore allotment. Last month, the Cabinet approved a connection to lease premier onshore successful South Mumbai adjacent Mantralaya, measuring 2,995.75 quadrate metres, to a non-profit organisation called Jain International Organisation for 30 years to physique a superior and secondary school, contempt the concern department’s objections.

In different case, a 2,566.57 quadrate metres MHADA crippled successful the premier Sion country (South Central Mumbai) was leased to Mumbai District Central Co-operative Bank, of which BJP person Pravin Darekar is the chairman, contempt the concern department’s antagonistic remarks.