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Friday, Jun 20, 2025
K-Rail Limited is maintaining that it has neither discussed nor given any direction about the manner in which markings are to be made as part of the survey.
The Left Democratic Front government in Kerala is now trying for the Centre's approval for the Detailed Project Report (DPR). Land acquistion will be possible only after the Centre approves the DPR.
The agency responsible for conducting the survey informed K-rail authorities that the exercise can be undertaken only with adequate police protection.
The authorities arrived at the site expecting activists and protesters to be in Thiruvananthapuram for the Secretariat protest.
The 529.45-km-long SilverLine railway project is expected to reduce the journey time from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod from 12 hours to just 4 hours.
Congress activists and public arrived at the site on Wednesday morning when they learned that the authorities restarted the survey process guarded by a huge police contingent.
Panchayat authorities have ordered that the certificate from the village officer should be made mandatory for giving permission for the construction of a new house.
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.
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