At a time when the Centre is probably going to provide its clearance for the Parandur greenfield airport, Friday marked the 900th day of protest by native individuals who really feel their livelihood can be affected as a result of venture.
Parandur Inexperienced Airport Venture Protest Group & Ekanapuram Village Residents and Farmers Welfare Federation urged each the State and Central governments to drop the venture, 70 km from Chennai.
Day by day within the night, a couple of villagers will undertake the protest. There have been additionally protests at varied areas because the announcement for the venture was made in August 2022 by Chief Minister MK Stalin.
The Federation’s Secretary G Subramanian in a memorandum stated that the venture would have an effect on 13 villages, together with Ekanapuram, Nelvoy, Valathur, Ediayarpakkam, Madapuram and Akkammapuram surrounding Parandur. There are lots of discrepancies within the information given by Tidco, the Centre and the Authorities Order.
There are lots of contradictions among the many information talked about within the Tidco examine report for the location, the detailed data given within the website allow by the Centre; statistics given within the decree and the statistics given by the surroundings allow, the memorandum says.
On Friday, the villagers have been heading in the direction of Chennai to protest on the former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s memorial. Nevertheless, they have been arrested enroute, in accordance with a member of the federation.
The ₹20,000 crore venture is deliberate in 5,746 acres from 20 villages and to be accomplished earlier than 2030. In September 2024, the State authorities issued land acquisition notices for a complete of 4445 acres of land in Ekanapuram.
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In August, 2024, the Centre granted website clearance approval to Tamil Nadu Industrial Improvement Company Restricted (TIDCO), for improvement of greenfield airport at Parandur.
Web site clearance for the venture was granted by the Centre based mostly on the suggestions of the Steering Committee comprising representatives from a number of stakeholder Ministries/Organisations together with Directorate Basic of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and Security Regulator,
The proposed airport at Parandur would function the second airport close to Chennai. It could yearly deal with 10 crore folks; could have two runways, terminal buildings, taxiways, an apron, and a cargo terminal.
The Chennai airport handles over 2 crore folks yearly. After the continuing modernisation work, it might probably deal with 3.5 crore folks a 12 months for the subsequent seven years. The Ministry of Defence had additionally granted No Objection for the grant of website clearance.
