Be it the Ahmedabad Metro, land for Gujarat Bhavan in New Delhi or funds for projects, Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel mostly bypasses the usual ministry route to directly write to prime minister Narendra Modi to expedite approvals. And the prime minister, it appears, obliges by taking a personal interest in clearing projects for Gujarat, documents available with dna suggest.

Be it the Ahmedabad Metro, land for Gujarat Bhavan in New Delhi or funds for projects, Gujarat chief minister Anandiben Patel mostly bypasses the usual ministry route to directly write to prime minister Narendra Modi to expedite approvals. And the prime minister, it appears, obliges by taking a personal interest in clearing projects for Gujarat, documents available with dna suggest.

Unlike other chief ministers who communicate with the ministry concerned for their projects, Patel prefers to deal directly with the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to cut the red tape.

In response to a Right to Information (RTI) application filed by dna, the urban development ministry revealed that Patel wrote to PMO in June complaining that the ministry had been idling on the Ahmedabad Metro project since April. The prime minister, who was Gujarat chief minister before Patel, intervened and the project got a final go-ahead in August.

Acquisition of land for Gujarat Bhavan in the national capital was also made possible with Modi's intervention. According to the documents, the PMO made a reference to Patel's complaints and got land allotted to the state government in July this year.

Patel and PMO walked the same path to get funds for projects sanctioned under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

The RTI reply from various departments within the ministry reveals that the Gujarat government has made the most number of requests to the PMO.

The only other chief minister to write to the prime minister has been former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa for construction of phase II of Chennai Metro.

"When it comes to Gujarat, the PMO not just writes to the urban development ministry an official from PMO closely monitors issues pertaining to his home state," said a ministry official.

Clearly, the prime minister's heart still beats for Gujarat.

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After promising in September to quickly resolve a years-long land dispute involving villagers and the politically connected development company KDC International, a member of the National Assemblys human rights commission visited affected families in Kampong Chhnang province yesterday.

Chea Poch, an opposition lawmaker, said he cooperated with rights group Adhoc and the authorities to study the situation in Kampong Tralach districts Lorpeang village and collect information from dozens of families who claim to own land in the disputed area.

When we find out how many families legally own land here and who wants to keep their land or accept compensation, we will speak with the company, Poch said. We will try to resolve this according to the law and respect what the villagers want.

In September, members of the commission vowed to find a solution in a matter of weeks. Poch, however, said yesterday that he did not know how long it would take to resolve the dispute.

Villagers greeted Poch with some caution, noting that the commission was well past the deadline it had set itself.

Last time, they did not inspect the land personally, Sngoun Nhoeun, a representative of the villagers, said of a previous visit. This time they should conduct a more thorough study.

KDC is owned by Chea Kheng, wife of Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem. Families accuse KDC of clearing 145 hectares of their land for development.

Phat Pov Seang, a lawyer representing KDC, said that the company welcomed the investigation.

But we dont believe that it will solve the problem, because the people are always demanding money for land that they no longer own, he said.

These families sold their land in 1997 but continued to live there and plant rice. The next owner sold the land to KDC in 2007. The company has land titles.

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KANGAR, Jan 12 (Bernama) -- Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim claims he has solid proof of illegal logging and land-clearing activities in Gua Musang, one of the causes for the heavy floods in Kelantan recently.

He said the illegal land-clearing was in black areas which had been undisturbed since the days of the emergency but had been cleared by certain quarters for some time now.

"I have solid proof that they were given the Temporary Occupancy Licence (TOL) to clear the land but the land-clearing has gone beyond the permitted areas. I also have information on who are doing all this.

"Among them are the big businessmen from neighbouring countries. I hope there is a law to take them to court," Shahidan told reporters after chairing a post-flood meeting with state government agencies here today.

He urged that barricades be installed on all roads leading into the forests and intruders be caught and appropriate action taken against them, while conditions imposed on loggers to plant three trees for every tree cut down.

Shahidan said discussions would also be held to appoint the Orang Asli as voluntary rangers.

"This might control the intrusions as the number of those involved in illegal logging is high and it has been happening for a long time, but no action has been taken against them" he said.

Shahidan said the federal government had discussed the illegal logging and land-clearing issues with the Kelantan government as part of efforts to resolve the problem of flooding in the state.

On the flooding in Perlis, he said initial assessments of the losses suffered by padi planters in an area of about 2,335 hectares were estimated at RM2 million and this information had been passed on to the relevant ministries to obtain aid.

"I am satisfied with the service given by the government agencies, non-government bodies and about 1,000 volunteers in Perlis who helped 445 families of flood victims last month, but preparations must be made to manage up to 20,000 flood victims," he said.

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Court quashes land alienation by Sabah government, saying they failed to give sufficient notice to natives claiming native customary rights.

SANDAKAN: Sandakan High Court Judicial Commissioner Douglas Cristo Primus Sikayun has delivered a landmark decision in granting a declaration that the alienation of a parcel of land measuring 500 acres at Kampong Ansuan at Telupid by the Department of Lands and Surveys was null and void.

The Court ruled that the Department had failed to give sufficient notice of the land application to natives claiming native customary rights (NCR) under section 13 of the Sabah Land Ordinance.

The Judicial Commissioner declared that the Director of the Department of Lands & Surveys and the State Government of Sabah had a fiduciary duty to the natives of Sabah in safeguarding their native customary land.

Having considered the evidence adduced at the trial, the learned Judicial Commissioner declared that the native defendants had proved the native customary rights on the land claimed by them.

Under section 13 of the Sabah Land Ordinance, it is specifically provided that upon receipt of any application for unalienated country land, it shall be the duty of the Collector to publish a notice calling upon any claimant to NCR in such land, who is not yet in possession of a registered documentary title, to make or send in a statement of his claim within a date to be specified in the notice, the Court said. If no claim is made the land shall be dealt with as if no such rights existed.

As to the sources of NCR, the Judicial Commissioner referred to, amongst others, Article 9 of the British North Borneo Treaties 1881 which provides that all in the administration of justice to the people of Borneo or to any inhabitants thereof, careful regard shall always be had to the customs and laws of the class or tribe to which the parties belong especially with respect to holding, possession, transfer and disposition of lands and succession.

In 1995, the Department of Lands & Surveys approved and alienated to Sudi Kembang Sdn Bhd, the plaintiff in this suit, with 500 acres of land at Kampong Ansuan in Telupid and a land title in country lease for 99 years was issued to the company in 2001.

Sometime in 2004 when the company started site clearing and developing oil palm plantation in the land, the company found that a portion of the land measuring about 15 acres was being occupied and cultivated by the defendants late father Yahsu Linggis, who was planting oil palm in about 10 acres of the land.

In 2011, Sudi Kembang Sdn Bhd as plaintiff filed this writ action against the defendants Marsius and Alfeus at the Sandakan High Court seeking for an injunction to evict them from the land and claiming damages.

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