Land for Sreechitra Institute; protest brews against acquisition

Protest is brewing in the outskirts of the city – Ayiroorpara , Mangattukonam and Shastavattam area – against the government's move to acquire land for the Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute of Medical Sciences.

The people in the area are agitated against the alleged unilateral move, stating that the inhabited areas in Ayiroorpara , Mangattukonam and Shastavattam is being acquired for the project even when hundreds of acres of uninhabited land lies adjacent to the proposed project region. They also blame the councillor for having allegedly given the consent for acquiring their land without their knowledge.

Thulaseedharan Mangattukonam, convenor of the Action Council alleged that the people in the area knew about the acquisition only days after the notification period ended. ''Everything was done in secrecy. The councillor had not intimated about the the acquisition,'' he said and added that more than 1000 families will be affected.

Pointing out that the area was filed with paddy fields and was a wet land, he said that the government was acquiring the land in the area when a vast stretch of land was lying adjacent. 

Source: The Newindian Express 

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