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Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 7

The Chief Minister, Mr V.S. Achuthanandan, has said that a high-level committee headed by the Chief Secretary would go into complains with respect to acquisition of land for the proposed Vizhinjam International Deep Sea Container Transhipment Terminal.

Briefing newspersons here on decisions taken at a meeting of the State Cabinet on Tuesday, Mr Achuthanandan said that further steps in acquisition would be taken only after examining the complaints.

Being set up at an estimated cost of Rs 8,000 crore, the project has been awarded to the Hyderabad-based Lanco Infratech in partnership with Pembinan Redzai of Malaysia. To be developed in the BOT mode, it has received all clearances from the Centre.

The State Government had announced that 1,088 hectares of land were needed for the project in and around Vizhinjam, about 16 km from here. Land acquisition had run into trouble with local people raising complaints that the procedure lacked transparency. In another decision, the State Government decided to set up a separate council for the speedy implementation and oversight of the Rs 4,300-crore Kuttanad package that aims to ramp up agricultural production.

The Chief Minister will be the Chairman of the council, Mr Achuthanandan said. The Ministers for Agriculture and Water Resources would be Vice-Chairmen while other Ministers and people’s representatives from the area would make the members of the Council.

A separate committee headed by the Chief Secretary as Chairman would be constituted to coordinate and implement the project, which was drawn up by eminent agriculture scientist Dr M.S. Swaminathan.

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