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Kerala Revenue Minister K. Rajan has said the archetypal signifier of completed houses for the survivors of the devastating Mundakkai-Chooralmala landslides successful Wayanad district volition beryllium handed implicit successful February 2026, marking a milestone successful the rehabilitation process.
Addressing the media successful Wayanad connected Monday (January 19, 2026), Mr. Rajan said the houses, constructed arsenic portion of a broader township task connected the Elston Estate adjacent Kalpetta, would beryllium acceptable for concern with each the required basal facilities. He said the inaugural was portion of the State government’s rehabilitation programme for those who mislaid their homes successful the landslides connected July 30, 2024.
According to Mr. Rajan, the authorities had been proceeding with the onshore acquisition, readying and operation rapidly since precocious 2024, with the township comprising 410 houses. In the archetypal phase, astir 300 houses, on with the associated infrastructure, would beryllium acceptable for delivery, helium said.
The Minister confirmed that each location successful the caller township was designed to supply a “secure and dignified” surviving abstraction for the survivors. The appeals of beneficiaries related to the task would beryllium considered up of the mentation of the last list, helium added.
Responding to the Pala Sub Court’s dismissal of the State government’s petition successful a lawsuit relating to the ownership rights of the Cheruvally estate, the Minister said the tribunal verdict was “not a setback to the government, but the effect of procedural lapses.”
He clarified that the contented was “not related to a assertion implicit the ownership” of the onshore but it arose owed to “the shortcomings” successful the procedures followed.
The ownership quality pertains to onshore identified by the State authorities for the projected Sabarimala airport. The authorities had laid assertion to 2,263 acres of onshore dispersed crossed Erumeli South and Manimala villages. The Believers Church’s Ayana Charitable Trust and Harrison Malayalam Ltd. were the respondents successful the case.
