After remaining closed for over months, Jagat restaurant, once a favorite eating joint for Nagpur's middle class, has reopened recently. Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) has given the restaurant on licence to the owner Jagat Sanghi for an annual fee of .`13.07 lakh.
NIT chairman Sanjay Mukherjee told TOI that civic agency had sent a proposal to urban development department to reallot the land to Jagat Restaurant as the same had been done with other land owners in Sitabuldi. NIT had floated Sitabuldi West improvement scheme in 1980s. It proposed to acquire the land, develop it and then hand it back to the owners.
While many land owners like Fadnavis and Buty handed over possession, Sanghi refused. He approached the government and later the high court over development charges. Mukherjee said, "The HC finally decided in our favour in mid-August.
We took possession of the restaurant immediately. We had returned land to other land owners in Sitabuldi. Hence, NIT trustees decided to do the same in Jagat's case too. A proposal was sent to state government. However, till the government took a decision in this regard we decided to enter into a lease and licence agreement with the owner. Jagat Sanghi will pay us 3% of 2010 ready reckoner value of the 10,000 square feet plot as annual charges. When the government approves our proposal, Sanghi will have to pay lease fee as per the ready reckoner rates prevailing at the time."
The chairman further said that while the NIT board had decided to hand back land to Sanghi last month, it took some days for formalities like taking an undertaking from the owner that he would not challenge NIT's decision.
He informed that NIT had asked Shriram Dharamshala, whose lease was cancelled for violation of conditions, to vacate the premises by November 5. The land was given to a trust to run a dharamshala near Government Medical College (GMC) for kin of outstation patients coming to GMC. However, the trust constructed shops and restaurants in the complex.
It also leased out space to several shops and a private commercial hospital. The Dharamshala became defunct. In view of these violations, Mukherjee decided to cancel the lease. "If the lessee does not vacate the premises within stipulated period, NIT will make a forcible entry as per provisions of law. If he can give some cogent reasons, we can grant him a month's extension but not more. The lease would have expired in natural course after three years and we would not have
renewed it," he added.
NIT chairman Sanjay Mukherjee told TOI that civic agency had sent a proposal to urban development department to reallot the land to Jagat Restaurant as the same had been done with other land owners in Sitabuldi. NIT had floated Sitabuldi West improvement scheme in 1980s. It proposed to acquire the land, develop it and then hand it back to the owners.
While many land owners like Fadnavis and Buty handed over possession, Sanghi refused. He approached the government and later the high court over development charges. Mukherjee said, "The HC finally decided in our favour in mid-August.
We took possession of the restaurant immediately. We had returned land to other land owners in Sitabuldi. Hence, NIT trustees decided to do the same in Jagat's case too. A proposal was sent to state government. However, till the government took a decision in this regard we decided to enter into a lease and licence agreement with the owner. Jagat Sanghi will pay us 3% of 2010 ready reckoner value of the 10,000 square feet plot as annual charges. When the government approves our proposal, Sanghi will have to pay lease fee as per the ready reckoner rates prevailing at the time."
The chairman further said that while the NIT board had decided to hand back land to Sanghi last month, it took some days for formalities like taking an undertaking from the owner that he would not challenge NIT's decision.
He informed that NIT had asked Shriram Dharamshala, whose lease was cancelled for violation of conditions, to vacate the premises by November 5. The land was given to a trust to run a dharamshala near Government Medical College (GMC) for kin of outstation patients coming to GMC. However, the trust constructed shops and restaurants in the complex.
It also leased out space to several shops and a private commercial hospital. The Dharamshala became defunct. In view of these violations, Mukherjee decided to cancel the lease. "If the lessee does not vacate the premises within stipulated period, NIT will make a forcible entry as per provisions of law. If he can give some cogent reasons, we can grant him a month's extension but not more. The lease would have expired in natural course after three years and we would not have
renewed it," he added.
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