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Protest against land acquisition

KOCHI: A meeting was held by District Collector M. Beena on Monday to hear the objections and demands being made by the authorities of a temple against the acquisition of part of its land for the highway connectivity of the proposed Vallarpadam International Container Terminal.

The temple situated on the land owned by FACT at Amabalamedu has protested the acquisition on the ground that it would lose its compound wall, a bhajan math, where the temple priest lives, and the banyan tree within its premises in the acquisition process.

The temple authorities demanded adequate compensation for the loss of compound wall and bhajan math as also additional charges towards meeting the expenses of felling and removing the banyan tree.

Dr. Beena told the temple authorities that adequate compensation, as per the guidelines set by the government, would be paid.

She, however, said that it would be difficult to meet the temple’s demand to be paid the value of the land to be acquired. Since the land belongs to FACT, a public sector undertaking, technically there was no need to pay land value, the Collector said.

The temple authorities agreed to get back to the Collector within two days after placing the outcome of the meeting before the temple committee to be convened on Tuesday.

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