What land is being acquired and where
The project is an urban road link from Rajiv Gandhi Salai to East Coast Road, together with a bridge over the Buckingham Canal.
All the land notified so far lies in one village, Neelangarai, in Sholinganallur taluk, Chennai district. The notices together list 119 survey numbers in that village.
The acquisition is being made under the Tamil Nadu Highways Act, 2001, a State law. It is not a National Highways Act acquisition, and it is not being made under the 2013 Act.
The notices and their stage
Four notices have been published in the State Gazette. The first notification is dated 27 August 2024. An errata was issued on 22 February 2025. Further notifications followed on 28 February 2025 and 18 March 2025.
An errata corrects mistakes in an earlier published notice, such as a wrong survey number, subdivision or extent. If your land was in the first notification, read the errata as well, because the corrected entry is the one that applies.
Under the Tamil Nadu Highways Act, 2001, acquisition is made by a notice under section 15(1). Under the scheme of the Act, once such a notice is published, the notified land vests in the Government, and compensation is then determined by the authority named under the Act on the basis of the claims and records placed before it.
None of the 4 notices has been withdrawn in full. The facts available here do not show whether possession has been taken or whether compensation has been awarded or paid for any survey number.
The village covered
Neelangarai, Sholinganallur taluk, Chennai district: 119 survey numbers notified, none withdrawn.
No other village appears in the notices for this project.
What to do if your land is listed
Get a copy of each Gazette notice and check your survey number and subdivision against it. Check the errata dated 22 February 2025 in particular, since it may change an entry that appeared earlier.
Collect your title documents, patta, chitta, adangal extract, FMB sketch, encumbrance certificate and tax receipts. The compensation authority will rely on these records to decide who is entitled to be paid and for what extent.
Contact the land acquisition officer or the office of the Highways Department handling this project, and the Sholinganallur taluk office, to find out the present stage for your survey number and how to lodge your claim.
If you are buying land in Neelangarai, ask the seller for the survey number and subdivision before paying any advance, and check it against all 4 notices. Land covered by a section 15(1) notice is treated as vested in the Government, so a private sale of it is a serious risk. Have a lawyer verify the position in writing.