Make land acquisition transparent, says BJP

CHENNAI: The Bharatiya Janata Party has insisted on a more transparent method of acquiring land for the airport expansion project.

In a statement here, the party’s State president L Ganesan stated that though airport expansion was necessary considering the increase in air traffic, the method in which the land was being acquired in Manapakkam had to be more transparent.He said, the residents of Manapakkam felt that there was no necessity of using their residential area for the expansion.

But the government had announced that residential areas would also be used for it.He also stressed the need for the people to know what plan the aviation sector had evolved for the expansion project.

He said that the residents harboured the fear that the private company to whom the task of acquiring the land would be given, might buy it from the people at a low price and later state that the land would not be necessary for expansion and sell it to outsiders at a high rate.

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