Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (MS)
Mangaluru, Jul 15: The process of acquiring land for the four-lane Kulshekhar-Moodbidri-Karkala national highway road work will begin soon. The project, which was stalled years before due to the protest of locals, is revived again by the national highway department.
45 meters in place of 30 meters to be acquired
Years ago, 3A notification was issued for an area of 33 acres through which the proposed four-lane national highway will pass through. However, during that time the process was stalled as the locals demanded that the land should be acquired for only 30-meter wide road and not 45 meters. Now, the national highway authority has decided to acquire land for 45-meter construction of road and the process is started already.
The 3A notification with regards to the acquiring of land for 45 meters of the national highway will be sent out in the month of September.
21 days’ time to raise objection
National Highway Authority will collect all the documents pertaining to the land acquisition from the taluk office. Survey for the second phase land acquisition is already started. Once all the survey work and documents are available, final 3D notification will be prepared. After this process, the consultant will prepare the agreement for the project, feasibility report and detailed project report (DPR).
Once the 3A notification is published in the state gazette, details of the path of the proposed road, and the name of landowners who have to provide land to the government and the corresponding survey number of the land will be published in the dailies. The affected public will be given a time of 21 days to file any objection from the time of the publication of this notification in the daily newspapers.
Previous notification pending
For the same project, 3D final notification was published on March 15, 2017. However, there was an accusation of not publishing the notification on daily newspapers. Meanwhile, a meeting was conducted on July 18, 2017, under the leadership of the deputy commissioner (DC) and a new map was prepared with some changes. Then the same was handed over to National Highway Authority to prepare the DPR. After the National Highway Authority prepared the DPR, the same is handed over to the special land acquisition officer.
Bypass road to be made at Gurpur and Moodbidri
Recently, after holding a meeting with the National Highway Authority officials in Mangaluru, Nalin Kumar Kateel, MP had informed that all the processes related to the land acquisition for the four-lane national highway project of Kulshekhar-Karkala will be completed in September 2018 and tender will be called in the month of December 2018. He had also informed that two bypass roads will be made at Gurpur and Moodbidri for this project of widening the road to a distance of 45 meters.
Process in the starting stage
"The process of land acquisition for the four-lane road of Mangaluru-Moodabidri-Karkala is in the preliminary stage. Once the centre gives the nod, the next step will be undertaken," said, Sasikant Senthil, DC, Dakshina Kannada district.