Everybody wanted to hear this news—realtors, investors and home buyers. It seemed to be a case of who blink first. Now the agitating farmers in the Noida Extension area have announced that they simply wanted a better deal for their land, not the land itself.
Striking a sympathetic note for investors , the farmers also said they wanted a solution to the crisis that would not hurt home buyers.
At the end of the farmers’ panchayat at Khairpur village on Tuesday, what emerged was a frank acceptance that the acquisition of their land was a done deal. The elders acknowledged that young people in their villages were not keen on a return to the farming days, and the result of trying to turn the clock back now would be a colossal waste for all parties.
“Massive construction has been done in several villages in the Noida Extension area. As a result , the land has lost its fertility and getting it back does not make any sense,” Kisan Sangharsh Samiti president Manveer Bhati said.
