India, March 8 -- The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (Yeida) has decided to give hiked 64.7% land compensation to those farmers whose land falls outside the master plan-2041, officials said on Friday.

Notably, earlier, Yeida had not given the hiked compensation on the ground that this land is outside the master plan. But following its board decision, the authority will take this land making it a part of the master plan development.

The decision is likely to benefit hundreds of farmers, whose land was acquired before 2017 in districts including Aligarh, Mathura, Hathras and Agra ignoring the fact that this land was not included in the authority's development zone for immediate development, said officials.

However, Ye...