KOCHI: The Left authorities has moved an enchantment within the Kerala Excessive Court docket difficult one in all its single choose’s orders deferring until February 7 the survey being carried out in reference to SilverLine challenge on a number of properties in Kottayam district of the state.
The only choose’s January 20 order had come on a number of pleas moved by the property house owners in opposition to the laying of concrete poles, with the marking Okay-Rail, of their respective parcels of land.
Difficult the one choose’s choice, the state authorities has contended that there was no bar on laying concrete poles as survey marks beneath the Kerala Survey and Boundaries Guidelines or the Survey and Boundaries Act.
It has additionally contended that the survey being carried out was just for the aim of marking properties for the Social Affect Evaluation (SIA) research and was not for land acquisition.
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Kerala authorities’s formidable SilverLine challenge, which is predicted to cut back journey time from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod to round 4 hours, is being opposed by the opposition Congress-led UDF, which has been alleging that it was “unscientific and impractical” and can put an enormous monetary burden on the state.
The 540 kilometer stretch from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod can be developed by Okay-Rail — a three way partnership of the Kerala authorities and the Railway Ministry for creating railway infrastructure within the southern state.
Ranging from the state capital, SilverLine trains can have stoppages at Kollam, Chengannur, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Thrissur, Tirur, Kozhikode, and Kannur earlier than reaching Kasaragod.
