GCDA staff association protests move to hand over land to registration department
The association demanded that when leasing out GCDA's land to others, adequate rentals should be charged.
Leaders of GCDA staff association, a pro-Congress union, wrote to the GCDA secretary regarding this issue. "It is learnt that there is a plan to hand over 15 cents of land owned by GCDA near Kadavanthra police station to the registration department. GCDA, being an agency that operates using its own funds, handing over the assets will affect day-to-day operations.
GCDA does not receive any grant or financial support from govt.
Therefore, land transactions should be conducted only after obtaining market value. Otherwise, the move to hand over the land should be scrapped," the association stated.
Moreover, the plan to give various local bodies Rs 1 crore each to develop or construct infrastructure facilities within the holdings in such civic bodies' limits should also be reconsidered. The financial condition of GCDA is not satisfactory. Thus, providing financial support to the local bodies will affect GCDA's day-to-day activities, the association leaders said.
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