Second phase land acquisition for Kannur airport project
Negotiations are under way with landowners for fixing the value of land to be acquired in the second phase of land acquisition for the proposed Kannur International Airport.
Nearly 1,000 landowners were participating in the negotiations, which began on Monday at the Collectorate. The discussions would continue till Wednesday.
Officials of the Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Kinfra), which is the nodal agency for land acquisition, said here on Tuesday that the landowners were very positive. Of the total 783 acres to be acquired in the second phase, the present negotiations would cover only 640 acres. Fresh notification is required for acquiring the remaining 140 acres as the earlier notification under section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act lapsed, they said. The acquisition process begins with issuance of the notification under the Act.
The negotiations are being held in different sessions for landowners grouped in different categories based on the nature of the land. In the negotiations, the value of land starts from Rs.45,000 for an acre.
The negotiations followed protests by the landowners against the prices fixed by a district-level purchase committee (DLPC), which ranged between Rs.25,000 and Rs.80,000 an acre. As the people’s representatives exerted pressure on the government to revise the value, a State-level empowered committee returned the DLPC’s proposal for revising the prices.
In the first phase, 1300 acres had been acquired.
· 1,000 landowners participating in the negotiations
· 783 acres to be acquired in the second phase
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