India, June 11 -- The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (Yeida) on Tuesday said it will develop and protect a buffer zone in a 5-km radius along both sides of the Yamuna Expressway, where they will not permit "unplanned" development.

However, outside this zone, the authority plans to let farmers to set up their agri-based businesses, and other benefits in a step to benefit farmers, whose land falls outside this buffer zone. Yeida will discuss and may approve the proposal in its June 18 board meeting, said officials.

"We've prepared a proposal so that we can empower the farmers, whose land falls outside the 5km radius of the buffer zone that we have decided to make, and protect the same for the planned development. Outsi...