The state government's move to hand over revenue land to the promoters of the proposed
Private airport project at Aranmula comes at a time when the revenue department is going
through a tough time to identify three cents of land each for the poor as part of the Zero
Landless project.
Apart from Kannur and Kasargode, the landless outnumber the plots identified in the other
districts. It has also been alleged that the government is giving prime land to the airport that
would have resulted in serious environmental disaster at Aranmula when the land distributed
as part of the Zero Landless was mired in controversies related to ownership and its
uninhabitable nature. Though the government claims to have identified about 75,000 plots in
the first phase of the project, the proceedings have been completed only in the case of
25,000 families. The government's hasty move to provide land to the KGS Aranumla
International Airport Ltd has raised several questions even when apprehensions are there over
the implementation of the UDF Government’s flagship populist programme ''Zero
Landless Project''.
Source: The New Indian Express
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