Patna, July 25: Bihar Government on Monday rejected the opposition allegation of irregularities in land allotment by the Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA).
Chief Secretary Anup Mukherjee in his report, circulated to the press, said there was no irregularity in allotment of land to entrepreneurs who might be relatives of state ministers, MPs or bureaucrats.
“The lands have been allotted under framed rules and procedures with full transparency,” Mukherjee said.
Addressing a joint press conference with BIADA Managing Director A Arya, State Industry department’s Principal Secretary C K Mishra said the BIADA had started allotment of land under a legislation enacted in 1974 and the land allotment was done under the rules framed in 2007.
“There has not not been any provision for auction of land,” Mishra said adding the allotment had approval from the Project Clearance Committee.
Opposition parties have recently petitioned Governor Devanand Konwar seeking a CBI probe into the alleged illegal allotment of land under BIADA.
—PTI