How a Rajasthan village lost to Robert Vadra
Umrao Khan is a driver who retired from Rajasthan's state-run roadways. More than 10 years ago, he had bought 50 bighas in Sujasar village, about 20 kilometres from Pokhran, best known for being India's nuclear test site, at Rs 3,000 a bigha. Across a dirt track lay a vast stretch, the villagers put it at 1,600-1,700 bighas, where the proposed Rajasthan Solar Processing Zone (RSPZ) was to come up. But four years after the land bank was developed by Jodhpur-based Ashapurna Buildcon...
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