Acquisition of Lands in Dindigul District, Acquisition of Land, Form-VI Declaration

What the declaration does

The Commissioner of Land Administration and the District Collector issued declaration number 3797/2013/A2, notification number VI(1)/721(ll-1)/2025, under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The declaration was published by the Government of Tamil Nadu in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary dated 12 August 2025.

The declaration places 0.20.00 hectares of land under acquisition for a public irrigation purpose. The project is the excavation of the left supply main canal from the Palarpourandalar Dam.

Land covered

The acquisition applies to land with the following details:

• Village: Kozhumakondan Village.
• Taluk: Palani Taluk.
• District: Dindigul District.
• Survey number: 397/2C2.
• Classification: Private patta dry land, held under joint patta.
• Area under acquisition: 0.20.00 hectares.
• Interested persons listed: Karuppa Boyan, Arumuga Boyan, Veera Boyan, Subramanian, Sundarapandiyan and Veerachamy.
• No trees or structures are recorded in the land schedule.

The schedule also records the neighbouring survey subdivisions forming the boundaries of the acquired land.

Objections and land records

The acquisition declaration states that objections from interested persons were heard and an enquiry was completed before the declaration was made. A plan of the land can be inspected on any working day during working hours at either of these offices:

• The Collector's office, Dindigul.
• The office of the Land Acquisition Officer or Revenue Divisional Officer, Palani.

Coal, iron-stone, slate and other minerals beneath the land are not required, except for material that may need to be dug, removed or used during project construction.

Rehabilitation and resettlement

The rehabilitation and resettlement summary records that no family is likely to be displaced or resettled because of the acquisition. It also records:

• No affected infrastructure, trade or business.
• No affected landless agricultural labourers whose main livelihood depended on the acquired land.
• No affected cattle shed, petty shop, artisan, small trader or self-employed person.
• No identified affected family from the listed disadvantaged groups.
• No rehabilitation or resettlement compensation payable under the listed entitlements, because no family is recorded as affected and displaced.