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Rail link: compensation to be paid in a few days

KOCHI: Giving a fillip to efforts being made for laying a railway line connecting the proposed Vallarpadam International Container Transhipment Terminal, the State government has waived registration and stamp duties for the land acquired for the work.

Documentation and disbursal of compensation to those displaced from the lands acquired will start early next week, District Collector A.P.M. Mohammed Hanish told presspersons here on Wednesday.

The cheques will be handed over to them by the Cochin Port Trust on behalf of the Union Shipping Ministry, Mr. Hanish said. As a token of acknowledgement of the cooperation extended by those at Vaduthala, the first of the compensation cheques will be handed over to them, the Collector said. The district administration plans to hold a function attended by people’s representatives for the distribution of compensation.

The special tahsildar (railways) is verifying the documents of landowners whose property will be acquired.

The Collector said that land acquisition was progressing well in all four villages — Cheranellore, Mulavukad and Edappally north and south — through which the railway line would pass.

Land had been identified at Vazhakala and Kakkanad for rehabilitating those to be displaced at Edappally north and south.

At Mulavukad, more and more landowners were coming forward to cooperate with the acquisition. The Collector urged the landowners to accept the price fixed for their land or to face acquisition of their land under the land acquisition Act.

About 20 hectares had to be acquired for the work, of which about seven hectares would be from private landowners.

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