Facing resistance from a section of farmers and landowners over parting with their land for the eight lane Salem-Chennai Green Corridor expressway, Tamil Nadu government today said only 400 hectares of the estimated 1,900 hectares meant for the project were arable land.
Chief Minister K Palaniswami told the state Assembly that "a few persons" who could be affected from the project were staging protests and it should not be made into a big issue.
"Of the estimated 1,900 hectares to be acquired for this road, 400 hectares is government poramboke land.Of the balance of 1500 hectares, 1100 hectares is being acquired in dry areas and only 400 hecatres is being acquired from arable parts."
Palaniswami further said land acquisition was done during the DMK regime also, but that the compensation amount was "lesser."
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