Govt. to directly purchase land in Ayyankuzhi for waste management project

The onshore to beryllium acquired astatine Ayyankuzhi adjacent Ambalamugal arsenic portion of the rehabilitation of 40-odd families deed by concern contamination volition beryllium straight purchased by the authorities from the owners utilising funds disposable nether the government’s Kerala Solid Waste Management Project (KSWMP) aided by the World Bank.

A gathering convened by Ernakulam District Collector G. Priyanka connected Tuesday (June 2, 2026) had decided to guardant the onshore acquisition connection to the KSWMP arsenic portion of plans to acceptable up a coagulated discarded attraction installation connected the 9.4-acre portion sandwiched betwixt 2 large nationalist assemblage units—Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited-Kochi Refinery and Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited.

Senior officials of the Department of Local Self Government said that funds had been earmarked nether the KSWMP for nonstop acquisition of onshore from the owners. The process volition beryllium completed aft receiving motion from the authorities connected the onshore price. The nonstop acquisition process has been mooted to debar clip and outgo overruns successful task completion and to trim litigation implicit compensation by duly conducting negotiations, they said.

The officials added that it was up to the authorities to determine connected the coagulated discarded attraction task to beryllium acceptable up astatine the site. Though determination was an archetypal connection to acceptable up a sanitary onshore filling for inert waste, it was enactment connected clasp later. A connection to acceptable up a installation for processing operation and demolition discarded has been taken up for discussion, they said.

The erstwhile Left Democratic Front authorities had projected a operation and demolition discarded processing works with a capableness to process 100 to 150 tonnes successful Ernakulam nether the public-private concern mode. It was portion of the determination facilities projected nether the KSWMP aided by the World Bank.