Kerala - Kannur

Action plan ready for assigning plots to evictees

KANNUR: An action plan is ready for assigning land for rehabilitation of families being displaced from lands notified for acquisition for the Kannur airport project as the District Collector-led District Level Purchase Committee (DLPC) for negotiating land value has completed negotiation for 986 acres to be taken over from 851 title holders.

District Collector Ishita Roy said here on Thursday that the land for rehabilitating the displaced families had been identified close to the areas that are being being acquired for the project.

A blueprint for assigning a 10-cent plot each with road facilities among the families had already been prepared. The areas where the families were set to be rehabilitated were 50 to 200 metres away from their lands being acquired for the airport project, she added.

Ms. Roy said the DLPC had completed fixing of land value for 986 acres in four sittings held here since November 7. She said that title holders whole-heartedly participated in the sittings and majority of those who had completed the negotiations transferred letters of consent for handing over the land.

The title holders were generally content because they were getting higher value for their landholdings at the DLPC sittings than the normal land acquisition procedure could have offered them. The DLPC’s efforts to fix the land value in the first phase acquisition of 1,092 acres through negotiations would conclude when the negotiation was completed in respect of the remaining 106 acres, she said.

The process of taking possession of the land would be initiated following the approval of the DLPC’s land valuation by the State Level Purchase Committee.

The title holders would be given cheques for compensation amount when the land transfer was registered, the Collector added.

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