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The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has paid a sum of ₹5.6 crore to the School Education Department arsenic compensation for acquiring a information of onshore that belonged to the Government Boys Higher Secondary School successful Tiruvalam colony adjacent Katpadi successful Vellore.
NHAI enactment comes aft The Hindu, successful its study dated November 7, highlighted the plight of hundreds of students of the schoolhouse for harmless entree to classrooms arsenic the demolition of 8 unused classrooms and a information of the compound partition by NHAI had turned the field slushy and uneven, risking students particularly during monsoon.
NHAI has demolished classrooms and the compound partition of the schoolhouse to get 1,784 sq.mt of schoolhouse onshore for its ongoing widening enactment of the Chennai-Bengaluru National Highway (NH-48).
Officials of the School Education Department said that non-payment of compensation for acquired schoolhouse onshore has stopped them from undertaking repair works similar the levelling of the field and recognition of onshore for gathering caller classrooms wrong the campus.
Following the caller report, P. Merian Jothika, Special Tasildar (Land Acquisition), successful her study to Collector V.R. Subbulaxmi, said that NHAI has transferred the compensation online to the slope relationship of Chief Educational Officer (CEO), Vellore, connected November 7. A transcript of the study is disposable with The Hindu.
The study besides says that the CEO has written to Krishnagiri based Project Director, NHAI, successful August 2025, to wage the compensation for schoolhouse onshore successful Tiruvalam for roadworthy widening work. Subsequently, the petition has been forwarded to General Manager, NHAI, New Delhi, successful October for its nod.
Apart from paying compensation, NHAI besides undertook the levelling of the demolished unfastened abstraction wrong the schoolhouse field connected Friday. School authorities thanked the territory medication and NHAI for taking contiguous enactment to guarantee the information of students.
The 1966-built school, which is dispersed astir 3 acres, has astir 300 students betwixt Class VI and XII with 20 teachers and 12 classrooms. Most of the students are from the surrounding farming villages.
NHAI officials said that the ongoing widening enactment is portion of the ₹5,964-crore Chennai-Bengaluru Expressway. As per estimates, the expressway volition beryllium converted into a four-lane route, astatine slightest 90 metres wide. Elevated bridges, underpasses and toll plazas are its different features.
