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Though its Managing Director V Ajithkumar stated that it was probable after the social impact study, a new alignment away from the proposed current corridor is unlikely!
A close look at the DPR of the SilverLine project reveals there cannot be any construction in the area that comes within 30 m from the middle of the alignment of railway track.
The two laws invoked by the state government for land acquisition are, the Kerala Survey and Boundaries Act of 1961 and the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act of 2013.
SilverLine DPR throws up more questions than answers, and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is unwilling to address these.
The authorities have come up with a "deferred payment scheme" for those who have to part with land for the project.
When asked about the protests involving uprooting of boundary stones he replied "We shall get more stones from other states if necessary."
The survey process was resumed in Thirunavaya of Malappuram on Tuesday after being disrupted by protestors on Monday.
The MD contradicted minister Saji Cherian who earlier in the day was highly dismissive of the widely held impression that there was a buffer zone for the project.
Any mention of the Liberation Struggle, CPM strategists feel, would bring back memories of how an elected Communist ministry was unjustly ousted by the Nehru-led Congress ministry at the Centre in 1959.
The Kerala government has dispatched more forces to control the protest and continue the survey process.
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