Author: Rajan Kantilal Gengaje
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-91-28
Year: 1991
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1988
Examination Committee: E. Desingu Setty (Chairperson); Karl E. Weber, Raymon W. Archer (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The rapid increase in the population and the resultant growth of the cities inevitably expand the city area. The lands around the city become the centre of attraction not only for the upper income group, but also for the middle and lower income groups. As the public authorities in most of the growing cities of India, have not been thoroughly successful in supplying land for housing these groups, the smaller plots outside the legal framework are gaining importance in the city land market. As a result, large scale transfers of lands in the fringe area are effected in the land market. This has been a picture, commonly observed in case of the growth of most of the Indian metropolitan cities. The land developers in most of these cities, have not hesitated in engaging themselves in malpractices, in anticipation of huge profits in future . Such malpractices include the outwitting of legislative provisions, bribing of the local officials and cheating of the land owners. The fraudulent transactions entered into by the land developers and land racketeers, for the transfer of land – especially the farm lands in the fringes – undoubtedly exploit the land owners and defeat the objectives of the legislation meant for safeguarding the interests of the ordinary citizens. The present study, with the help of ten case studies of Village Bavdhan, in Mulshi Taluka of Pune District, tries to ex pound and document the fraudulent nature of such land transactions, along with the modus operandi of fraudulent land dealers, in the light of the current legislative provisions. The issues raised by such fraudulent land transactions under study, are important because they involve questions regarding safeguarding the interests of ordinary citizens – the buyers and sell Ars of such land who generally lack the legal know-how or the means to protect themselves from s u c h unscrupulous exploitation. These fraudulent land transactions then, present a challenge to the planner, legislator, administrator a nd the poli
Scholarship Donor(s): Canadian International Development Agency
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science
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