Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, No. 15A, Part VI, Section 1 (Supplement)

Bellarampalli irrigation project

Roc. No. 90/2024/L, issued by the District Collector, Krishnagiri District, dated 19 December 2024, is a preliminary land acquisition notification under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.

The acquisition covers 1.23.75 hectares of dry land in Bellarampalli Village, Krishnagiri Taluk. The land is required to excavate new supply canals from the right and left sides of the existing Ennekol anicut canal, serving drought prone sub basin areas in Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri districts.

Key provisions include:

• The affected entries are in Survey Nos. 213/4, 213/5, 215/2, 215/4A, 215/4C and 437/3, with the relevant subdivisions, extents, boundaries, structures, trees, owners and patta numbers listed in the schedule.
• No family will be displaced by the acquisition.
• The Revenue Divisional Officer, Krishnagiri, is appointed as the rehabilitation and resettlement administrator.
• An environmental impact assessment was carried out by Life Shell Labs India Private Limited. The notification states that a social impact assessment does not apply because the environmental impact assessment was completed for the irrigation project.
• The Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, Water Resources Organisation, Dharmapuri, and staff are authorised to enter and survey the land, take levels, and dig or bore into the subsoil for the work.

Restrictions and objections in Bellarampalli

The Bellarampalli preliminary notification prevents any sale, purchase, other transaction or creation of an encumbrance over the notified land from the date of Gazette publication unless the Collector gives prior approval.

An interested person may submit objections to the Collector within 60 days from publication. The land plan may be inspected during working hours on a working day at the offices of the Collector, Krishnagiri, and the Land Acquisition Officer or Revenue Divisional Officer, Krishnagiri.

Melavalam government school acquisition

Notification No. VI(1)/264/2025, linked to G.O. (Ms.) No. 192, School Education Department, dated 1 November 2022, declares that 2,800 square metres in Survey No. 20/17, Melavalam Village, Madurantakam Taluk, Chengalpattu District, is under acquisition.

The land is used for government school buildings, toilets and perimeter walls. The schedule records a reinforced concrete building, three toilets, one septic tank and specified trees. It names Narasiman and Balaraman, sons of Sudharsan Naidu, as land owners or responsible persons. The text states that no family requires resettlement.