Pathanamthitta: The Kerala Gazette notification of the Industries department declaring 500 acres of land spread across the Mallappuzhasserry, Aranmula and Kidangannur villages as industrial area in connection with the proposal to set up a private airport project in Aranmula was part of a “legal fraud’’ aimed at getting clearances through “short-cut’’ for certain key requests of the company that have been outrightly rejected by the State Cabine, earlier, alleged Mr Thomas , former State Planning Board member and AICC member.
In a statement issued here on Thursday, Mr Thomas alleged that the notification itself was a big humbug created after exploiting the loopholes in the existing law.
According to him, there is every reason to suspect a larger conspiracy behind the notification issued by the Additional Chief Secretary on behalf of the Industries Department, invoking the provisions in the Kerala Industrial Single Window Clearance Boards and Industrial Township Area Development Act 1999. No such notification was issued for the Cochin International Airport Limited at Nedumbasserry or for the proposed airport at Kannur. So far, such notifications have been issued only in the case of the industrial parks and estates of Kinfra and for the442 ha of land in the possession of the FACT in Kunnathunad taluk. Moreover, all these industrial estates and parks as well as the FACT property have got clear boundaries, he added.
The Act was passed in 1999, usurping the powers of the local self-government institutions, was aimed at bypassing the otherwise mandatory clearances required for various projects from the panchayats, municipalities, Town Planning Department and Development Authorities in the land notified as industrial area, he alleged.
22/12/11 The Hindu
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