Siadpura – Kuradi,
is one of the proposed peri-urban water schemes under the World Bank-funded Uttarakhand
Water Supply Program (UWSP) in the district, Haridwar. For the active support of
the community and the engagement of citizens, the facilitating agency Dev Rishi
Educational Society (DRES) has organized a consultation on 21st
December, 2019. During the meeting, public representatives and the villagers
took active part and there were no major issues that came up. In the follow up of
the community mobilization activities, DRES and the FIU / UJN have felt the
need for the reconstitution of the Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC). Finally, on 4th
January 2020 DRES has organized a meeting in Kuradi village for the
re-constitution of GRC. In the meanwhile, DRES and UJN team came to know that 20
families of the village have claimed that the land area for proposed tubewell
had been allotted as a lease to them by the government. It was a big problem that came on the way as the contractor supposes to start construction work immediately.
DRES and UJN team has called a meeting in the house of the former head of the
village Mr. Satendra Singh, in which present head of the village Mr. Saini also
took part to sort out the issue. A resident Mrs. Sushila Devi, her sons and 20
other families put up their objection in the meeting. They have informed that
they use that land for the dumping of household garbage and use it as a garden too.
They also claimed that they have all legal documents belongs to the land. All
the families have argued about their claim that they are using that land for many decades. By knowing the issue, village representatives, DRES team and
officials of the UJN have decided to give 5 days to claimants, so that they can
collect and show the legal land documents. If the claimant's shell is able to show
the evidence as legal documents, the department will leave the land, if not
claimants must withdraw their grievances and allege. Finally, after given time
claimants did not present the facts and documents because the land has belongs
to the common property of the village and the issue has been solved on the
spot.