How Yamuna Expressway Authority’s Plots Became no man’s Land?
Yamuna Expressway was meant to be a game-changer in Uttar Pradesh’s history as it was supposed to provide a high-speed link between Delhi and Agra. The expressway opened in 2012 with much fanfare, and the Yamuna Expressway Authority Plots had big plans for the area surrounding the expressway. They bought vast lands, and in 2014 they started selling plots to investors and individuals for development.
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Initially, the response was overwhelming, and people were investing in Yamuna Expressway Plots with high hopes of returns on their investment. However, things started to take a turn for the worse when the authority failed to provide the basic infrastructure and amenities that the buyers were promised.
The lack of infrastructure and amenities resulted in most buyers not developing their plots, and the area gradually became a no man’s land. The Plots in Yamuna Expressway authority’s failure to provide basic amenities, coupled with the lack of interest from the buyers, resulted in the area becoming a ghost town.
Fourteen years since its announcement, Yamuna Authority’s largest residential scheme is still in limbo. Following a Supreme Court judgment last year, work on the project has gathered pace, according to officials. Allottees promised their “dream home”, however, are far from reassured.
“Escape the crowds… Think of living where there is an endless supply of fresh air,” reads the tagline of Residential Plot Scheme 1 — the earliest residential plot project of the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Develo-pment Authority (YEIDA) issued in 2009. Fourteen years on, true to the announcement, the area is crowd-free; the air around here, too, is fresher than many others in the region. There is just one problem, though: There is no sign of any settlement in the vast stretch of land — spread across sectors 18 and 20 of YEIDA in Gautam Buddh Nagar district — acquired for the scheme.
YEIDA’s ambitious plan to develop a sprawling residential society with over 20,000 plots along the Yamuna Expressway has seen its fair share of hiccups — Yamuna Authority Plots protests, litigation and multiple rounds of revisions in provisions of the scheme. The authority had acquired land from 14 villages for the project but it is mostly lying vacant.