What land is being acquired and where
The acquisition is for the Avinashi Road Elevated Highway in Coimbatore, running from Goldwins to Uppilipalayam. It is an urban stretch, so the affected land is largely within the city and its immediate surroundings.
In all, 128 survey numbers in 6 villages are covered. All of them are in Coimbatore district, in the Coimbatore North and Coimbatore South taluks. One village falls in an area recorded under both taluks.
The acquisition is being carried out by the State under the Tamil Nadu Highways Act, 2001. It is not a National Highways Act acquisition. No section 3D declaration under the National Highways Act, 1956 applies here.
The notices and their stage
Nine notices have been published in the State Gazette. Seven are notifications under the Tamil Nadu Highways Act, 2001, issued between 28 October 2022 and 7 July 2023. Two are errata, issued on 25 June 2024 and 20 November 2024.
Two of the notifications, those dated 28 October 2022 and 26 May 2023, were corrected later. An errata notice usually corrects details such as survey numbers, subdivisions, extents or names. If your land falls in a village covered by those notifications, read the original and the correction together.
Under the Tamil Nadu Highways Act, acquisition begins with a notice under section 15(1), which states the Government's intention to acquire the listed land for a highway. Owners and interested persons may file objections within the time stated in the notice, and the authority must consider them before the acquisition proceeds further. Once the land vests in the Government, compensation is determined and awarded under the Act.
None of the nine notices has been withdrawn, in full or in part, according to the records available. The latest notice is dated 20 November 2024. These records do not show the award or payment stage, so confirm the current position for your survey number with the land acquisition office.
Villages covered
Six villages are named in the notices. The largest share of survey numbers, 42, falls in Anupperpalayam.
Kalapatty (East) has 39 survey numbers listed and Kalapatty (West) has 18. Both are in Coimbatore North taluk.
Sowripalayam, in Coimbatore South taluk, has 15 survey numbers listed. Krishnarayapuram, recorded under Coimbatore South and North, has 8.
Six survey numbers are listed in Vilankurichy.
Anupperpalayam. and Vilankurichy. are also in Coimbatore North taluk. No survey number in any of these villages has been withdrawn.
What to do if your land is listed
First, obtain a copy of the Gazette notice for your village and check your survey number and subdivision against it. Where an errata notice exists, check that as well, because the corrected entry is the one that counts.
Compare the extent shown in the notice with your patta, chitta and the FMB sketch. Many urban road acquisitions take only a strip of a plot. Note whether the whole survey number or only part of it is affected.
Make sure the revenue records stand in your name. If a sale, partition or inheritance has not been mutated, correct the patta now, as compensation is paid to the person shown as entitled in the acquisition records.
Buyers should treat any listed survey number with care. Ask the seller for the notice details, check the extent affected, and confirm with the land acquisition office whether an award has been passed and to whom compensation is payable before you pay any advance.
For the stage of acquisition, the award and compensation for your survey number, contact the land acquisition officer for this project at the Coimbatore Collectorate, or the taluk office for Coimbatore North or Coimbatore South.