Public hearing on land acquisition for construction of new Police HQs held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 16 2019:
Social Impact Assessment Unit, Manipur (Directorate of Environment, Government of Manipur) conducted Public Hearing to seek the feedbacks of the affected persons on acquisition of 10 acres of land from 9-Chingmeirong Nongpok village for finalisation of the Social Impact Assessment (SIA) Report and Social Impact Management Plan (SIMP) of the proposed construction of new Manipur Police Headquarters.
The public hearing at the conference hall of Autonomous District Council (ADC) Bhavan, Chingmeirong was held following Section 8 of "Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Social Impact Assessment and Consent (Manipur) Rules, 2014" .
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Dr T Brajakumar, Deputy Director, Directorate of Environment; Meibon Phaomei, Corporator of Ward No 26, Imphal Municipal Corporation (IMC); Samuel, president, Paomei Colony Youth Club (PCYC) and expert members of State Social Impact Assessment Unit Manipur viz Prof E Bijoy, O Biren Singh, GA Jaychandra Sharma, BB Sharma and Md Abdul Salam attended the public hearing, said a statement of the Directorate of Environment, Government of Manipur.
Dr T Brajakumar Singh gave the introductory remarks for conducting Public Hearing.
He stated that Social Impact Assessment study is a part of land acquisition process to study the social, environmental and economic impacts before actual acquisition of a proposed land as per "Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013" and "Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Social Impact Assessment and Consent (Manipur) Rules, 2014".In lieu of this, State Government constituted an independent body having eminent and well experienced persons from varied fields to conduct Social Impact Assessment study where Directorate of Environment is appointed as the State Social Impact Assessment Unit.
He further mentioned that quantitative as well as qualitative data from the stakeholders concerned was analysed from May 25.The findings of the study is prepared as draft report of Social Impact Assessment which is placed before the public hearing for their feedbacks and inputs.
The affected land owners expressed diverse opinion and comments of the said project which were noted for further analysis and finalisation of SIA Report.