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Land acquisition process for Sulur defence park expedited

Coimbatore: Revenue department officials have intensified work to acquire 364.46 acres of land from a private company to set up a defence industrial park at Varapatti near Sulur.

Dynamatics Technologies Limited in Bengaluru acquired a wind farm spread across 440 acres at Varapatti from Tamil Nadu Petro Products Limited in September 2008.

When the defence industrial park was announced, the firm came forward to provide 410 acres of land to the state government.

A few months ago, the government decided to acquire 364.46 acres from the firm and surveyed the land. “Last week, we started work to fix a value for land. After completion of work, a report will be senior officials. We except the entire process to be completed in a month or two,” a revenue official said. Apart from 364.46 acres, 4.97 acres of poromboke (non-cultivatable) land and 4.35acres of ‘bhoomidan’ land will be acquired for the project.

Officials had asked the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) to allot around 158 crore for the land acquisition process.

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