Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government is carrying out the process of acquiring 8.38 hectares of land in Maduramangalam near Parandur to establish a SIPCOT industrial park. Farmers in the area have strongly opposed this.
In Parandur, Kanchipuram district, it was decided during the previous DMK regime to set up Chennai’s second airport in Ekanapuram in collaboration with the Central government. Farmers in that area had strongly expressed their opposition to this.
In this situation, after the TVK came to power, Chief Minister Vijay announced in the Assembly on August 31 that the Parandur airport project would be abandoned. He also announced that a semiconductor and electronics manufacturing park would be set up in Maduramangalam, Kanchipuram, through SIPCOT at a cost of Rs. 175 crore.
Notification issued
In this context, Land Administration Commissioner Rajesh Lakhani has issued in the Gazette a notification for acquiring 8.38 hectares of land to establish a SIPCOT industrial park in Maduramangalam near Parandur.
It has been stated that the compensation amount for the landowners will be provided from SIPCOT funds. The maps of the lands to be acquired and related documents have been kept at the offices of the District Revenue Special Officer and the Special Tahsildar. The public may inspect them in person on working days.
Meanwhile, strong opposition has arisen in the Maduramangalam area to this land acquisition notification. Since it has been stated that an industrial park will be set up on the land acquired for the Parandur airport, acquiring land in Maduramangalam village to establish a new industrial park is unacceptable.
How is it fair for the government, which canceled the Parandur airport project, to acquire agricultural land in our village? Is there one rule for Ekanapuram and another for Maduramangalam? the local people ask with anguish.
In the Parandur surrounding area, which was already tense over opposition to the airport, it is noteworthy that the new land acquisition notification for the SIPCOT project has once again created anxiety.
