What land is being acquired and where
The acquisition is for the Coimbatore Defence Industrial Park, Varapatti, and Approach Road, an industrial park project. The notices list 155 survey numbers in total.
The land lies in two districts. Three of the villages are in Sulur taluk of Coimbatore district. One village is in Palladam taluk of Tiruppur district.
All the notices were issued under one law, the Tamil Nadu Acquisition of Land for Industrial Purposes Act, 1997, and were published in the State Gazette.
The notices and their stage
Three notifications have been published. The first, dated 24 December 2024, covers 4 villages. The second, dated 24 January 2025, covers 3 villages. The third and latest, dated 12 February 2026, covers 1 village.
None of the three notices has been withdrawn, either fully or in part, and none has been corrected later according to the records available.
Under the 1997 Act, land is acquired by a notice under section 3(1) published in the Gazette. The Act provides that once such a notice is published, the land vests in the Government. This is a more direct process than the stages of preliminary notification and declaration used under the central 2013 Act.
Compensation under the 1997 Act is determined by the officer authorised under the Act after an enquiry into the land and the interests in it. These records do not show any compensation amount or award, so the current position on payment should be confirmed with the land acquisition office for your taluk.
The villages in the notices
The village with the most survey numbers listed, 94, lies in Palladam taluk of Tiruppur district. Its name is Paruvai.
In Sulur taluk of Coimbatore district, 53 survey numbers are listed in Kadampadi.
Four survey numbers are listed in Appanaikenpatty.
Four survey numbers are also listed in Kangayampalayam.
No survey numbers in any of these villages have been withdrawn from the notices.
What to do if your land is listed
First, obtain a copy of each Gazette notification and compare the survey numbers and subdivisions against your patta, chitta and Field Measurement Book sketch. Check the extent shown in the notice as well, since only part of a survey number may be affected.
Next, contact the land acquisition office handling this project, usually through the Collectorate or the Special Tahsildar (Land Acquisition) for Sulur or Palladam taluk. Ask for the enquiry date and the documents you must produce to claim compensation.
Keep your title deeds, encumbrance certificate, patta and tax receipts ready. If there is a dispute over title, a mortgage or a pending partition, raise it at the enquiry so that the claim is recorded.
If you are a buyer, do not purchase any listed survey number without first checking the Gazette notices and obtaining written confirmation from the land acquisition office. A sale after vesting will not give you clear title to land that has passed to the Government.