What land is being acquired and where
The Chennai-Tiruttani-Renigunta Road Six Laning is a state road project. The land needed for widening is being acquired under the Tamil Nadu Highways Act, 2001, not under the National Highways Act. No National Highways Act section 3D declarations appear for this project.
All the land notified so far lies in Avadi taluk of Tiruvallur district. Five villages are covered, with 188 survey numbers in all.
The notices list land by village and survey number. A survey number appearing in a notice does not always mean the whole survey number is taken. Very often only a strip or a subdivision along the existing road is acquired, so the extent shown against each survey number matters.
The notices and their stage
Five notifications have been published in the state gazette under the Tamil Nadu Highways Act, 2001. Each one covers a single village. They are dated 24 February 2023, 30 September 2025, 13 October 2025, 12 November 2025 and 13 May 2026.
None of the five notices has been withdrawn. Three of them, dated 24 February 2023, 30 September 2025 and 12 November 2025, were corrected by later notices. If your land falls under one of these, read the original and the correction together, because survey numbers, subdivisions or extents may have changed.
Acquisition under this Act is usually made by a notice under section 15(1). Once such a notice is published, the Act provides that the land vests in the Government free from encumbrances. The owner's remedy after that point is mainly a claim for compensation, not a challenge to the vesting itself, so early attention to the notice is important.
The facts available do not show whether compensation has been determined, paid or disputed for any village, or the stage of physical work on the road. Confirm these with the office handling the acquisition.
Villages covered by the acquisition
Nemilicheri, Avadi taluk: 75 survey numbers.
Thandurai, Avadi taluk: 63 survey numbers.
Thirumullaivoyal-1, Avadi taluk: 33 survey numbers.
Vilinjiambakkam, Avadi taluk: 15 survey numbers.
Soranjeri B, Avadi taluk: 2 survey numbers.
No survey numbers in any of these villages have been withdrawn from acquisition.
What to do if your land is listed
First, get a copy of the gazette notification for your village and check your survey number and subdivision against it. Then check whether a correction notice was issued later for the same village, and read both together.
Compare the notified extent with your patta, the FMB sketch and your title deeds. If only part of your land is affected, find out exactly which portion, because the balance land will remain with you and its value and access may change.
For compensation, the Act provides for the amount to be determined by the competent authority, after which the owner may lodge a claim and seek further remedy under the Act if dissatisfied. Keep your title documents, encumbrance certificate, patta, tax receipts and bank details ready. Where land is jointly owned or mortgaged, all interested persons should be in touch with the authority.
Buyers should be especially careful. Before buying any land in these five villages, check the survey number against every notice and correction for the project. Land that has already vested in the Government cannot be validly sold by the former owner, and a seller's title in such land is open to serious question.
To confirm the current position, contact the land acquisition officer for the project or the Highways Department, and check the revenue records at the Avadi taluk office.