CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the State Government to produce the records pertaining to its Government Order (GO) to acquire lands for expansion of Chennai airport, setting up of Greenfield airport and to freeze the building activities in the areas concerned.
The records should be produced in court on September 27. Justice A Kulasekaran gave the directive on a writ petition filed by EVP Housing Chennai Private Limited, challenging the State Government order dated July 9, 2007, for acquisition of 1,069.99 acres of lands in villages of Manapakkam, Kolapakkam, Gerugambakkam and Tharapakkam in Sriperumbudur taluk and 4,820.66 acres of lands in Tiruvallur and Sriperumbudur taluks for the formation of Greenfield airport.
The Government in its impugned order also directed the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) to take immediate action to freeze all the building activities in the ‘approach area’ and issue suitable notification after getting necessary proposals with full details from the Airports Authority of India.
According to the petitioner-company, it had developed layouts in Kolapakkam, Tharapakkam and Gerugambakkam areas after obtaining the layout approval from the CMDA in February 2005, while some people purchased the plots and started constructing houses through the petitioner.
Stating that it would not have developed the layout if the CMDA had not granted the approval, the petitioner said the Government’s proceedings to acquire the lands and freeze the building activities had resulted in great hardships to the petitioner-company and all the purchasers of lands.
Contending the Government’s order was arbitrary and liable to be set aside, the petitioner-company prayed the court to quash the same.
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M/S MacroMarvel Projects Ltd should also fight it out in the court. The residenr welfare associations should also file their affidavits. Government should not be allowed to play with human emotions in this fashion. IAAI also should be asked to explain how technically unsuitable land, has become suiotable now.
The action of the government has come as a rude shock. The builders are not going to suffer as they have already collected more than what is due to them. The kilpauk based developer has even told that it is none of their problem, and it is the headache of the person who has got it registered. All these plots were brought in good faith, and government never issued any warning while sanctioning the plot or building plans. It seems the government never had any plans of giving manapakkam to airport authorities as it has constructed a number of check dams on adyar river in this area. Only because of the trouble created by residents and political parties elsewhere, government succumbed to pressures and decided to give manapakkam area. Even airport authorities who were not interested in these plots earlier, are now ready to accept them, which indicates lack of transparency in functioning of major government organisations and their vulnerability to political pressure. How can a site which was declared as not suitable, on technical grounds and was rejected can now become suitable. Has technology advanced so fast in a span of one year to make such things happen. T.N government has taken the middle class people of this area for granted and there could be no other reason for this sadistic state of affair.
Why no updates
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