Kochi: The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal in the city on Tuesday permitted the petitioner in the multi-crore KGS Aranmula International Airport case to withdraw the appeal following a request. The Chennai-based firm, KGS group, had planned to set up the airport in Aranmula, Pathanamthitta district.
Local residents and Aranmula Heritage Village Protection Action Council, Aranmula, had opposed the move and approached the southern bench of the Green Tribunal recently. They raised objections alleging that the construction work posed a threat to heritage sites, the holy river Pampa and agricultural land.
The proposed greenfield international airport was designed to handle 1,000 passengers at a time and cater to Airbus A-320 and Boeing 747-like aircraft. The airport, located near Sabarimala, was expected to commence operation in 2014 and serve pilgrims and NRI passengers. On April 2, the judicial member of the tribunal, Justice M. Chockalingam, and expert member, Prof R. Nagendran, directed the management of the airport developed on 700 acres of land, to halt the work.On Tuesday, Justice Chockalingam said, “All respondents represented by their counsel were present. Advocate general of Kerala contended that the application was barred by limitation and jurisdiction and petitioner had suppressed the fact that a writ application on the same was pending before the Kerala High Court.”
However, the counsel for the petitioner prayed for the tribunal to give liberty to come back with a fresh application and permit to withdraw the application
“Tribunal gave permission to the application to withdraw their petition and accordingly the case was disposed as withdrawn,” the bench noted.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130501/news-current-affairs/article/green-tribunal-nod-aranmula
Local residents and Aranmula Heritage Village Protection Action Council, Aranmula, had opposed the move and approached the southern bench of the Green Tribunal recently. They raised objections alleging that the construction work posed a threat to heritage sites, the holy river Pampa and agricultural land.
The proposed greenfield international airport was designed to handle 1,000 passengers at a time and cater to Airbus A-320 and Boeing 747-like aircraft. The airport, located near Sabarimala, was expected to commence operation in 2014 and serve pilgrims and NRI passengers. On April 2, the judicial member of the tribunal, Justice M. Chockalingam, and expert member, Prof R. Nagendran, directed the management of the airport developed on 700 acres of land, to halt the work.On Tuesday, Justice Chockalingam said, “All respondents represented by their counsel were present. Advocate general of Kerala contended that the application was barred by limitation and jurisdiction and petitioner had suppressed the fact that a writ application on the same was pending before the Kerala High Court.”
However, the counsel for the petitioner prayed for the tribunal to give liberty to come back with a fresh application and permit to withdraw the application
“Tribunal gave permission to the application to withdraw their petition and accordingly the case was disposed as withdrawn,” the bench noted.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130501/news-current-affairs/article/green-tribunal-nod-aranmula
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