Hon’ble Vineet Saran, J.—This is a bunch of writ petitions challenging the notifications dated 24.11.2005 and 23.6.2006 issued under Sections 4 and 6 read with Section 17 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’).

2. We have heard Sri R.N. Singh, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Sri G.K. Singh; Sri U.N. Sharma, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Sri Vivek Saran; and Sri S.K.Tyagi on behalf of the petitioners. Dr. Y.K. Srivastava has appeared for the State and Sri Ashwani Kumar Misra for Hapur-Pilakhuwa Development Authority. For the purposes of convenience, Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 37893 of 2006 is being treated as the leading writ petition.

3. The undisputed facts of these cases are that for establishment of a Textile Centre Yojna (scheme) for giving encouragement to Textile industry of the country, a proposal was initiated by the Central Government. Sites from all over India were considered and on 15.3.2005 a decision was taken by the Central Government to establish a Textile Centre Yojna at Pilakhuwa, which was amongst the two sites for such purpose in the entire country. Pursuant thereto an undertaking was given by the State Governmen