The
state government has decided to take over 50 acres of land from a
Trust for the proposed Wayanad Medical College despite the Kerala
Land Board opposing it stating that it was government land. The
decision was taken last week at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister
Oommen Chandy.
Though
the government has decided to take over the land, the State Land
Board has still raised objection stating that there was no need for
any favour from the Trust as it was government land. The Trust had
got ‘’purchase certificate’’ for the land which is only given
for cultivating tenants as per the Kerala Land reforms Act.
According to the Act, purchase certificate is issued only to Human
beings and not to companies or trusts, the sources said and added
that as such the Land Board had raised the objection and conveyed the
message to the Government that the whole land belonged to the
Government.
The
Trust had stated that it will provide 50 acres of land from the 150
acres that it possessed. The sources said that the Government's
decision to take the 50 acres of land of the Trust was a move to
regularise its remaining land.
Source: The New Indian Express
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