Kerala provides nod for land acquisition to construct airport close to Sabarimala temple

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 31: With 4 worldwide airports already in operation in Kerala, the state authorities on Saturday gave the nod for land acquisition to construct a fifth airport in Kottayam district close to the famed Sabarimala temple.

The order from the Revenue Department states that 2,570 acres of land might be taken between Erumeli South and Manimala. The Cheruvally rubber property has been chosen because the place for the proposed airport.

Outside of the rubber property, 307 acres of land can even need to be acquired, the order says.

The airport might be positioned 48 kms from the Sabarimala airport and can have a runway of three,500 metres.

The state-run KSIDC has been appointed because the nodal company for all of the preliminary work, together with taking up the land.

The Cheruvally property is owned by the Thiruvalla-headquartered Believers Church and for lengthy has been a contentious concern between the successive governments over the title of the property.

The state authorities has all alongside contested that this land initially belonged to it.

The possession over the property has seen lengthy, standing authorized disputes between the current homeowners and successive state governments.

In 2016 that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan bought the casual sanction from then Union Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju for going ahead to construct an airport close to the Sabarimala temple.

There has been a requirement for an airport to cater to the Sabarimala pilgrims and in the course of the Oommen Chandy authorities (2011-16), a proposal by a personal participant to construct an airport at Aranmula in Pathanamthitta district bought entangled in varied points on the native stage.

After the Vijayan authorities assumed workplace in 2016, they revoked the sooner sanction given to the Aranmula airport and the seek for one other appropriate land in the identical district was began and eventually has now been noticed.

Once the land is taken over, functions for quite a few clearances will begin.

Kerala provides nod for land acquisition to construct airport close to Sabarimala temple IANS 31 December 2022 Post Your Comments

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