Ghaziabad, Feb. 15 -- The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has proposed to leave out for the time being three of eight villages from which land was proposed to be purchased by the authority for the development of its ambitious Harnandipuram housing scheme near the Delhi-Meerut Road.

GDA officials said the three villages of Bhovapur, Shahpur Nijmorta and Morta have been left out while land will be purchased from the five villages of Mathurapur, Nagla Firoz Mohanpur, Shamsher, Champat Nagar, and Bhaneda Khurd.

The scheme is proposed over an area of about 521 hectares, and about 462 hectares will be directly purchased from farmers. The GDA figures show that land from three villages, which have been left out for now, is about 125.28 he...