Congress alleges Adani Group given 1,050 acres land in Bihar at Rs 1 per year
Patna: The Congress on Monday accused Adani Power Limited of receiving undue benefits from the Centre and the Bihar government for setting up a thermal power plant in Bhagalpur district.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Congress media and publicity department chairman Pawan Khera alleged that 1,050 acres of land and around 10 lakh trees at Pirpainti in Bhagalpur have been handed over to the Gautam Adani-led company for 33 years at a nominal rate of Rs 1 per year.
Khera claimed that farmers in the district were coerced and threatened to part with their land for the 2,400 MW thermal power project, whose foundation stone was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. He further alleged that the land included mango, litchi, and teak plantations, all transferred to Adani Power Limited under the same lease.
The Congress leader said the project was originally announced in the Union Budget as a government initiative, but was later handed over to Adani. He also charged that the power generated would be sold to Bihar consumers at Rs 6.075 per unit, compared to Rs 3–5 per unit in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, calling it “double exploitation of the people of Bihar.”
There was no immediate response from the Centre, the Bihar government, or the Adani Group regarding the allegations.
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UP: Blood-soaked body of elderly man found in Hathras
Hathras (UP) (PTI): The blood-soaked body of an elderly man was found inside his house in Paharpur village here on Tuesday morning, police said.
The deceased, Jagdish Prasad Sharma, 75, who lived alone, had gone to sleep in his house on Monday night, officials said.
On Tuesday morning, his blood-soaked body was lying on a cot, with marks on his head and body indicating blows from a sharp-edged weapon, they said, adding that the police suspect murder.
Police and forensic teams reached the spot upon receiving information and sent the body for a post-mortem, they said.
Additional Superintendent of Police Ramanand Kushwaha said that Sharma, a retired Health Department employee, had been living alone since his wife's death during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He owned around 20-25 bighas of land and was also engaged in money lending, the officer said.
