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The Madras High Court has directed Bharathiar University to categorise nether 3 divisions the erstwhile onshore owners whose holdings were acquired to found the institution.
The directive issued past week requires the University to clasp negotiations with the onshore owners and get astatine mutually agreeable compensation metrics.
The University acquired onshore exceeding 950 acres successful Somayampalayam and Vadavalli panchayats successful the 1980s, from predominantly tiny and marginal farmers.
In 2022, the Madras High Court rejected the appeals of the State authorities against the grade of compensation ordered by the District Sessions Court successful 2007.
Backed by Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam and CPI (M), the farmers had staged a protestation past twelvemonth reminding the DMK authorities of its 2021 predetermination committedness for securing owed compensation wrong 100 days of assuming power.
According to CPI (M), the full compensation payable to farmers, including interest, exceeded ₹600 crore.
The reasoning of the farmers is that if the State Government faces funds crunch it should instrumentality the unused onshore to the farmers.
According to assemblage sources, a full of astir 950 acres were acquired from the farmers.
