What land is being acquired and where
The land is required for the Tenkasi Road Over Bridge, a state road project. The acquisition falls in Tenkasi district, within Tenkasi taluk.
Only one village is covered: Tenkasi. Within that village, 89 survey numbers are listed in the notice.
Because this is a state road, the acquisition was taken up under the Tamil Nadu Highways Act, 2001. It was published in the state gazette. It is not a National Highways acquisition, so the National Highways Act procedure of section 3A and section 3D notices does not apply here.
The notice and its stage
There is one notice on record for this project. It is a notification dated 27 April 2011, issued under the Tamil Nadu Highways Act, 2001.
Under that Act, the Government may acquire land needed for a highway or a highway work by publishing a notice under section 15(1) in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette. The notice identifies the land by village and survey number. Once it is published, persons interested in the land may file objections within the period stated in the notice, and those objections are heard before the acquisition proceeds further.
The notice has not been withdrawn, either fully or in part, and it was not corrected later. Our records hold no further notice after 27 April 2011. They do not show whether compensation was awarded, whether possession was taken, or whether the bridge has been built. Those points must be confirmed from the Tenkasi taluk office or the land acquisition section of the District Collectorate.
The village covered
Tenkasi village, in Tenkasi taluk of Tenkasi district, is the only village in this acquisition. All 89 survey numbers fall in this village.
No other village is listed for this project. If your land lies outside Tenkasi village, this notice does not cover it, though you should still check your own survey number against the gazette text before relying on that.
What to do if your land is listed
First, match your survey number and subdivision exactly against the gazette notification of 27 April 2011. A notice usually names specific survey numbers and the extent taken from each, so part of a survey number may be affected while the rest is not.
If you own land that is listed, ask the Tenkasi taluk office or the Collectorate whether compensation has been determined and paid for your plot, and whether the land now stands in the name of the Government in the revenue records. Keep copies of your title deeds, patta and any notice you received.
If you are buying land in Tenkasi village, check the survey number against this notice before you pay any advance. Ask the seller in writing whether any part of the land was acquired or compensated. Compare the patta, the field measurement sketch and an encumbrance certificate with what is being sold, and have the boundaries measured on the ground.
If anything in the records does not match, take advice from a property lawyer before you proceed.