TNPL plant on agricultural land, contrary to announcement
Posted on: 25/May/2013 11:34:56 AM
Farmers near Mannaparai have written to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa to look into the officials and land promoters who are looking at acquiring agricultural land for the proposed TNPL (Tamil Nadu Newpapers and Print Ltd.) plant. According to an announcement made by Ms. Jayalalithaa earlier this month, the plant will be constructed on barren lands.
‘While farmers welcome the setting up of the TNPL project at Mondipatti village panchayat, they are afraid that officials in charge have been insisting farmers to hand over their patta lands to the government for the upcoming project. Officials say that the project would boost employment. But we do not want to lose the land which we have been cultivating for decades’, say the group of representatives led by MP Chinnadurai, District President of Tamizhaga Vivasaigal Sangam.
