3 months ago
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A large fig of Ramanathapuram district farmers present connected Monday submitted a petition to Collector Simranjeet Singh Kahlon during the nationalist grievance redress meeting demanding that compensation for lands and houses acquired for the four-lane road and roadworthy enlargement should beryllium provided astatine the open marketplace value.
Balasundaramurthi, president of Ramanathapuram Big Tank Irrigation Farmers’ Association, said, “Land has been acquired for the four-lane road betwixt Paramakudi and Ramanathapuram connected the Madurai-Dhanushkodi National Highway.”
In this, farmers are greatly affected because compensation for onshore and houses is being provided with discrepancies and astatine reduced rates, without pursuing the guidelines acceptable by the Supreme Court, helium alleged.
“Due to this, a 1000 acres of cultivation onshore and much than 100 houses are affected successful areas, including Ariyanendal, Manjur, Achunthanvayal, Muthunaal, Nochivayal, Soorangottai, Idaiyarvalasai, Kalathavur, Peravur, Pappakudi, Maadakkottan, Kazhugoorani, Kaattoorani, Kuyavankudi, Sathakkonvalasai, and Uchippuli,” helium pointed out.
However, compensation for the acquired onshore is being provided now, aft a lapse of six years, without being paid properly.
“That magnitude besides differs from 1 idiosyncratic to another. Moreover, arsenic the valuation of the onshore and the valuation of the houses are assessed and paid astatine rates little than the unfastened market, the farmers and location owners are severely affected,” the petitioners claimed.
The district administration should take enactment to determine and supply compensation equivalent to the unfastened marketplace terms without discrimination, in accordance with the cultivation lands, houses, and plots, they demanded.
