While the value of land has multiplied over the last few years, the Administration continues to pay the value fixed in 1950.

Committee president Angrez Singh said the demands' charter was submitted to the Administration a few months back. The demands include that claims should be settled in one go and a commission should be set up, headed by a High Court judge, to investigate into the affidavits filed wrongfully and that migrants should not be allowed o settle in the city limits or even outside it, he said.

He said: " We want the residents of eight villages, where acquisition process is on, to be resettled in terms of compromise made in late 50s when the city was planned and developed".

The committee has also demanded the right of disposing of land to the owners in four villages under the municipal limits.

who have taken the advantages by filling wrong affidavits to reap the befits of the villagers and the migrant should be not be allowed to settle in the city limits or outside it, he said.