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Infrastructure States - Tamil Nadu AAI moves to settle land lease issue G. Gurumurthy
Flying high 61 acres were taken under lease Original rental was Rs 10 an acre Land was leased during Word War II
Coimbatore , March 31 In all fairness, it should ring sweet in the ears of scores of litigants who leased out their agriculture lands to civil aviation authorities for airport construction during World War II days, but were kept on tenterhooks in the payment of lease amounts due to them for over three decades now. It should be curtains finally on the dispute, of course, if only the latest relief from the Airport Authority of India (AAI) measures up to the land-owners' expectations. The AAI has released Rs 4.93 crore towards what it calls the settlement of the decade-old land lease issue. The AAI, according to Coimbatore airport director Mr C. Vijaykumar, has now made over to the Coimbatore district administration this amount to be paid to the land-owners. The remittance of the amount by way of demand draft has been made to the Revenue Divisional Officer concerned by the AAI as in any land acquisition matters the Central Government body has to operate through the State Government only. In fact, the land lease dispute involving the Coimbatore AAI and the original land owners should strike interesting as the issue of land taken on lease by the airport dates back to the British rule in 1942, when the then Government took some 61 acres near the Peelamedu airport under war-time Defence of India Act 1932 for development of the civil airport. The administrators had then fixed the lease amount payable to the land-owners at Rs 10 an acre and the originally agreed lease period was only for six months. However, the land continued to remain under the Government, though the latter had ordered the release of the land to the original owners in 1987 as the AAI did not do anything to restore the land, according to the owners. According to the land-owners, a tripartite meeting on this dispute, convened by the Coimbatore district collector a few years ago, decided on a revised lease rental at seven per cent of the market value of the land under lease for the period from 1987 till the land was restored to the owner. But this too going unimplemented, the land-owners went on agitation a few months ago demanding that the AAI restore the land to them immediately. The airport Director expressed the hope that with the AAI releasing the payment, the issue has neared a solution.
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