Public notice regarding acquisition of land for setting up ECO CITY 3 Project In New Chandigarh.

Overview

The Government of Punjab, Department of Housing and Urban Development, through the Land Acquisition Collector, issued a public notice regarding acquisition of land for: Eco City-3 Project, New Chandigarh The notice concerns persons who had filed objections under: Section 15 of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 against the preliminary acquisition notification issued under Section 11.

Section 11 Notification

The notice states that the Punjab Government had issued a Section 11 notification for acquisition of land for Eco City-3 through: Notification No. 06/06/2-16-6Hg1/2337 dated: 6 November 2024 This was the preliminary notification relating to the proposed acquisition for the Eco City-3 project.

Why Was the Hearing Called?

After the Section 11 notification, affected persons who filed objections under Section 15 were entitled to have those objections considered. The public notice therefore announced a: personal hearing of the objectors who had already filed objections against the proposed acquisition.

Hearing Date

The hearing was scheduled for: 27 January 2025

Time

11:00 AM

Venue

Committee Room, Second Floor PUDA Bhawan, Sector 62 S.A.S. Nagar

Who Was the Hearing For?

The hearing was specifically for: persons who had filed objections under Section 15 against the Section 11 notification for Eco City-3. It was not a general public hearing for all residents or landowners irrespective of whether they had submitted an objection.

Were Individual Notices Also Issued?

Yes. The notice expressly states that: individual notices had also been sent to the objectors. The public notice therefore supplemented those individual communications.

What Is a Section 15 Objection Hearing?

Section 15 provides an opportunity to object after publication of a Section 11 preliminary acquisition notification. At this stage, eligible objectors can raise issues within the scope of the Act concerning matters such as:

• the proposed acquisition;
• the land sought to be acquired;
• suitability or extent of the land;
• justification for the acquisition;
• Social Impact Assessment-related issues; and
• other relevant acquisition concerns.

The Land Acquisition Collector hears the objections and prepares the matter for consideration at the next stage.

What Stage of Acquisition Was This?

At the time of this notice, the acquisition had broadly reached: Section 11 Preliminary Notification → Section 15 Objections → Personal Hearing This is still before the later declaration, award and compensation stages.

Does This Mean the Objections Were Rejected?

No. The notice only announces the hearing. It does not state that:

• any objection had been accepted or rejected;
• the acquisition had been finally approved;
• a Section 19 declaration had been issued;
• compensation had been fixed;
• an award had been announced; or
• possession had been taken.

The outcome would have to be established from later official records.

What Happens After the Section 15 Hearing?

After considering the objections, the Land Acquisition Collector may prepare a report and recommendations for the competent authority. If the acquisition continues, later stages may include: Rehabilitation & Resettlement proceedings → Section 19 declaration → claims and measurement → award → compensation → possession Each stage is supported by a separate statutory record.

Is This a Land Pooling Notice?

No. This notice concerns: land acquisition under the RFCTLARR Act, 2013 and specifically the: Section 15 objection-hearing stage It should not be confused with later or separate Land Pooling options that may be offered for Eco City-3.

What Should Affected Landowners Check?

Anyone researching the Eco City-3 acquisition should verify:

• Section 11 Notification No. 06/06/2-16-6Hg1/2337 dated 6 November 2024;
• whether their Khasra number was included;
• exact land area proposed for acquisition;
• objection filed under Section 15;
• individual hearing notice;
• proceedings of the 27 January 2025 hearing;
• Land Acquisition Collector's report;
• subsequent R&R Scheme;
• Section 19 declaration, if issued;
• compensation and award records; and
• any later Land Pooling option.

New Chandigarh and the limits of the location information

New Chandigarh is a planned development area associated with Greater Mohali and GMADA. The information available for this notice does not identify the villages or parcels involved, so it cannot establish which local communities or landholdings are affected.

A project-level location does not show which part of the planned area is involved or whether a particular landowner’s property is included. The supplied information does not provide village or parcel details for this notice, so a more specific geographic account is not supported.

A separate tracked notice from August 2026 concerns the Commercial City Center of the New Chandigarh Master Plan and names Sangla, Bansepur, Tedda and ChadMajra. Those village names do not establish that any of those places fall within the Eco City 3 acquisition.

The two notices concern separate matters in the broader New Chandigarh area. The available records do not provide a boundary or other link connecting the Commercial City Center notice to this Eco City 3 matter.

What the later notices show about the process

Later tracked notices refer to Eco City 3 land matters under several headings, including acquisition, personal hearings and a land-pooling cash-compensation consent process. Their titles do not prove that the notices concern the same parcels or owners, or that acquisition was completed or the project implemented.

The tracked sequence is:

• A February 2025 notice is titled as concerning acquisition of land for Eco City 3 in New Chandigarh.
• Two August 2025 notices refer to acquisition for Eco City 3 and Low/High Density projects. One is identified as a personal-hearing notice under section 21 of the RFCTLARR Act, 2013.
• A September 2025 notice is also identified as a section 21 personal-hearing notice concerning acquisition for Eco City 3 and Low/High Density projects.
• A January 2026 notice concerns submission of consents for land-pooling cash compensation for Eco City 3.

These titles show that tracked land-related notices continued to appear after the notice on this page and that later records refer to different types of procedure. They do not establish a single continuous process affecting the same land. The references to Low/High Density projects do not disclose how those projects relate spatially or procedurally to Eco City 3.

The available information does not explain how the January and February 2025 notices differ, whether the hearing notices cover the same land as either earlier notice, or whether the cash-compensation process applies to a particular landowner. The project’s current acquisition and implementation status is not established by these titles.

The sequence should not be read as proof that one step automatically led to another. A tracked notice identified as a personal hearing is labelled as such under section 21 of the RFCTLARR Act, 2013. The later consent notice concerns land-pooling cash compensation, but does not establish that compensation was paid or that any individual consent was accepted.

Why the distinction between Eco City 3 and other plans matters

The notice links a land-acquisition matter to Eco City 3 in New Chandigarh, a planned development area associated with GMADA and Greater Mohali. Later tracked notices refer to Eco City 3 alongside Low/High Density projects and to land-pooling cash compensation.

This provides a limited picture of the subjects appearing in the tracked record: acquisition-related material, later hearing notices and a separate land-pooling consent notice. The titles do not explain Eco City 3’s design, land-use allocation or relationship to the wider New Chandigarh plan. Nor do they establish that the various notices concern the same land.

The available information does not describe Eco City 3’s approved boundary, planned land uses, relationship to a particular master-plan provision or construction status. Acquisition and hearing references do not establish that the project has been approved at every relevant stage, that compensation has been paid or that development is underway.

For residents and prospective buyers, separating a project reference from the procedural record helps avoid drawing conclusions about a specific property from a project name alone. The packet provides no parcel-level link between this notice and the separate Commercial City Center notice, and does not establish that Eco City 3 is operational.

Practical Details

• Notice Date: January 21, 2025

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