Errata notice and land acquisition notices for highway and railway projects

What this gazette contains

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary No. 521, published on November 18, 2022, contains notifications by the Commissioner of Land Administration, Chepauk, Chennai 600 005. The publication has two main parts, an errata notice correcting earlier acquisition notifications for a bypass road project, and notices acquiring land for a railway doubling project in Kanniyakumari District.

Errata for Muthukulathur Bypass Road

The Commissioner of Land Administration, Chepauk, Chennai 600 005 issued an errata notice under Section 15(1) of the Tamil Nadu Acquisition of Land for Highways Act, 2001 read with the Tamil Nadu Land Acquisition Laws (Revival of Operation, Amendment and Validation) Act, 2019.

This errata corrects notifications already published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette dated 29.06.2016 and 12.04.2017 for acquisition of lands for the formation of Muthukulathur Bypass Road in Ramanathapuram District, Muthukulathur Taluk, Mela Muthukulathur Village.

The corrections shown in the gazette include:

• Survey No. 257/5A, owner Krishna Thevar, S/o. Muthu Thevar.
• The extent to be acquired is corrected from 4171 square metres to 129 square metres, land type Wet.
• One entry is corrected from Survey No. 78/28 to Survey No. 78/26.
• The corrected entry shows total extent 200, extent to be acquired 182 square metres, land type Dry, with the interested person shown as Vasantha, W/o. Chettiappan Yadav.

Land acquisition for railway doubling in South Thamaraikulam

The Governor of Tamil Nadu acquires land under Section 3(1) of the Tamil Nadu Acquisition of Land for Industrial Purposes Act, 1997, read with the Tamil Nadu Land Acquisition Laws (Revival of Operation, Amendment and Validation) Act, 2019, for the formation of doubling of Broad Gauge Railway Line between Thiruvananthapuram and Kanniyakumari in South Thamaraikulam Village, Agasteeswaram Taluk, Kanniyakumari District.

Key points:

• Total extent acquired is 263 square metres.
• The lands are dry lands.
• Survey numbers listed include 435/7, 435/9B, 435/10A1 and 435/10A2.
• The schedule names pattadars or interested persons, and also lists structures and trees where present.
• The plan of the lands is kept in the office of the Collector, Kanniyakumari, and may be inspected during office hours.

Land acquisition for railway doubling in Suseendrum

The Governor of Tamil Nadu also acquires land in Suseendrum Village, Agasteeswaram Taluk, Kanniyakumari District, for the same railway doubling project.

Key points:

• Total extent acquired is 10278 square metres.
• The lands include wet and dry lands.
• The schedule lists many survey numbers, pattas, owners or interested persons, and any trees or structures noted on the land.
• Most entries are wet lands, with one listed dry land entry in Survey No. 313/10A.
• The land plan is available for inspection in the office of the Collector, Kanniyakumari, during office hours.

Who should check this gazette

This gazette matters to:

• landowners and interested persons named in the schedules,
• buyers checking title or acquisition risk in the listed survey numbers,
• professionals verifying whether a survey number is affected by correction or acquisition,
• anyone dealing with land in Mela Muthukulathur, South Thamaraikulam or Suseendrum.

If your survey number, patta, name, structure or trees match the schedule, the gazette directly affects that land record.