With the Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissing as withdrawn a special leave petition (SLP) filed by a group of Patwari farmers ,who challenged the Government ‘s move to work out an out of court settlement with farmers , The greater noida industrial development authority (GNIDA) is confident that the crises in Patwari will be resolved soon. There’s relief for 20,000 homebuyers who have booked flats in projects coming up in Noida Extention’s paywari village.

The Dismissal of the SLP and the indications that the Allahabad high court will begin hearing the Noida and Greater Noida land acquisition cases only after two weeks have allowed the government more time to make more and more Patwari farmers fall in line.
Not only homebuyers but projects like Metro line which is proposed from Noida to Greater Noida road (140 Metre wide, 28 Kms long) , a Greater Noida – Ghaziabad road (60 Metre wide , 22 Kms Long) will also get a new lease if life.
The authority had allotted 3,000 residential plots to people , plus there are number of corporate offices , besides schools and other institutions in that area. A section of farmers in Patwari , where the state government on August 6 struck a higher compensation deal to revive real estate projects , had moved the Supreme Court against the arrangement. Greater Noida chief executive officer Rama Raman termed the SC order “a positive sign”.
A two judge bench of the same court on July 19 quashed forcible acquition of 589 hectares of land in Patwari. But another two judge bench of the same court , while hearing some remaining petitions from Patwari on July 26 , referred the matter to the higher bench for hearing. The court also allowed the contesting parties time till August 12 for the settlement.
Farmer Layer Mr Parminder Bhati said “our contentions was when the HC had quashed acquition in Patwari village , the remaining petitions should have got the same relief. In the name of out of court settlements , government, officials and its heavy weight politicians have been putting pressure on farmers”
Farmers also claimed the court’s stand on Wednesday as victory for them. Ranveer Pradhan a farmer said “we thought we might not get back our land.but the court has approved of the july 19 verdict of the high court”.”The court has said the July 19 verdict was in favour of farmers and assured if the high court’s higher bench ruled against the interest of farmers they can move the Supreme Court.” Said Bhati.