In post-poll sweetener, Ayodhya outlets’ value slashed by 30%
In one other coverage change after the BJP suffered a shock defeat within the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency earlier this month, the Ayodhya Improvement Authority (ADA) on Thursday slashed the worth of outlets by 30% for allottees who have been displaced resulting from a street widening mission undertaken within the temple city.
Merchants in Ayodhya have welcomed the state authorities’s choice. (HT File)
As well as, it authorised the proposal handy over 500 newly constructed outlets to allottees in Ayodhya on 20-year straightforward installment with out curiosity. Hindustan Occasions on June 16 had reported that this proposal for “possession first and pay later” with interest-free, long-term instalments was within the pipeline.
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Now that it has been cleared, the ADA will ship the proposal to the state authorities.
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Ayodhya divisional commissioner Gaurav Dayal, who chaired the board assembly, later mentioned, “We’ve got authorised a proposal to chop outlets’ value by 30%. As well as, outlets might be handed over to allottees on a 20 -year straightforward installment with out curiosity.” Dayal can be chairman of the Ayodhya Improvement Authority.
These shopkeepers have been displaced within the 13- km street widening mission from Sahadatganj to Naya Ghat which has been named as Ram Path. The mission was accomplished in December 2023.
Earlier, shopkeepers needed to pay the total quantity to the ADA to take possession of outlets. As these outlets value round ₹15 lakh to ₹20 lakh, shopkeepers have been unable to pay the quantity. The one possibility earlier than them was to take financial institution loans.
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In December final, these outlets have been prepared. However resulting from monetary constraints solely round 75 shopkeepers took possession of outlets until the final month.
“We’re grateful to the state authorities for bringing down the price of outlets by 30%. And the remaining quantity might be payable in straightforward curiosity -free installments of 20 years,” mentioned Ved Prakash Gupta, BJP MLA from Ayodhya (Sadar) meeting constituency.
The merchants in Ayodhya have welcomed the state authorities’s choice.
“This can be a a lot wanted breather for merchants of Ayodhya. After a lot effort, there’s aid for us,” mentioned dealer chief Nandlal Gupta, who had performed a distinguished function in all agitations by shopkeepers.
Within the just lately concluded parliamentary election, the BJP suffered one among its most humiliating defeats within the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency the place its two-time MP Lallu Singh misplaced to Samajwadi Get together’s Awadesh Prasad.
The INDIA bloc candidate gained the distinguished seat by a margin of 54567 votes. Prasad obtained 554289 votes and Singh bagged 499722 votes.
After the grand opening of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya by PM Narendra Modi on January 22 this yr, the folks of Faizabad voted for the primary time and rejected the BJP. The Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency, the geographical centre of Kamandal or temple politics, has persistently witnessed an undercurrent of caste dynamics for the reason that late Eighties.
State BJP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary was in Ayodhya on a two-day go to on Wednesday to establish causes behind the occasion’s defeat within the temple city.
