By the Court.—Under challenge is the judgment, order and award dated 18.5.1993 passed by the First Addl. District Judge, Ghaziabad in a batch of 34 land acquisition references and the consequential decrees thereof.

2. All these 34 appeals were listed and heard by us together with First Appeal No. 357 of 1993 NTPC v. State of U.P. and another and connected appeals as probably in all appeals land so acquired was for the benefit for NTPC. However, on closure scrutiny we found that in the above 34 appeals the notification for acquisition, award made by the SLAO as also the judgment, order and award of the reference Court are all different. Therefore even though the arguments of the parties were on common line in both the set of appeals, we considered it proper to segregate these appeals and to decide them by a separate judgment. A preliminary notification was issued under Section 4 (1) of the L.A. Act (hereinafter referred to as Act) on 5.8.1986 for acquiring an area 19 Bigha, 6 Biswa and 12 Biswansi in village Siddhipur, paragana Dasana, Tehsil-Hapur, District Ghaziabad for the purposes of setting up a power plant by the National Thermal Power Corporation (hereinafter referred