K-Rail asked to prevent planting of survey stones to mark SilverLine boundaries
Finally, Kerala Rail Development Corporation (K-Rail) has come round to the view that survey stones want now no longer be forcefully planted to mark the limits for the SilverLine mission. Following a submission with the aid of using the K-Rail, the Revenue Department has directed the enterprise on Monday to both use the Geo-tagging approach or mark on everlasting systems to inform the limits of the mission.
This became the recommendation maximum railway specialists like E Sreedharan, Alok Kumar Verma or even the Railway Board had given. A staunch mission supporter, former member of the Railway Board Subodh Jain, too had stated that GPS generation became a higher guess than the location of survey stones. Yet, the K-Rail went in advance with putting 15 cm x ninety cm cylindrical stones on personal lands unmindful of public protests, and on maximum events the usage of pressure to take away protesters.
In fact, the laying of survey stones had stopped the instant the Thrikkakara with the aid of using-election became notified. Like withinside the case of a brief freeze on gasoline charge hikes at some stage in election time, it became felt that the procedure might start as soon as the election became over on May 31.
All things being equal, in an unexpected move, the planting of stones has been discarded. It was on May 5 that the K-Rail had kept in touch with the public authority of the hardships it was looking because of the "rough open fights and opposition". Amusingly, the K-Rail additionally said that "the arrangement can be effortlessly settled in the field by GPS facilitates utilizing DGPS (Differential Global Positioning System) overview gear or cell phones with GPS office."
It then, at that point, proposed to establish study stones where there was assent and imprint on long-lasting designs where there was contradict. The public authority, thus, asked the K-Rail to stay away from the planting of stones totally.
The limits are set apart as a feature of the social effect evaluation that must be done under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, otherwise called the LARR Act.
The arrangement is to get 1221 hectares of land for the semi high rail speed project. The obtaining will start solely after the Union Ministry of Railways supports the task.
The pundits of the undertaking contend that the SIA, climate influence evaluation, last area overview, and topographical and hydrological reviews ought to have been essential for the DPR. Indeed, even specialists who support the venture had yielded that the current DPR, ready by Paris-based Systra, isn't even 30% complete.
