Surveying continues amid heavy security for green expressway corridor
Revenue Department officials surveyed the land to be taken over for the proposed green expressway corridor for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday.
Published: 22nd June 2018 04:56 AM | Last Updated: 22nd June 2018 04:56 AM | A+A A-
SALEM: Revenue Department officials surveyed the land to be taken over for the proposed green expressway corridor for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday.
They have erected boundary stones for the 7.5 km of the expressway from Velliyampatty to Yerikadu.
In Salem district, it will have a length of 36 km, which has been divided into five units for measuring the land to be acquired for the project.
On Wednesday, they completed the work and erected boundary stones for the 8-km stretch from Manjavadikanavai to Seerikadu.
After that they started work in Velliyampatty, which comes under the first unit. At Velliyampatty, some farmers told the officials to first give them poison and then to measure the land. But the officials and the police pacified them. More than 500 police personnel were deployed in the locality.
