Hubli airport expansion: survey of houses to begin today

Hubli airport expansion: survey of houses to begin today
The Hindu - Staff Correspondent

Residents' committee to accompany the survey team
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# About 120 houses have to be demolished: Srikar
# Survey work will be completed in 10 days
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DISCUSSION: Hubli-Dharwad Deputy Commissioner M.S. Srikar (right) at a meeting with the representatives of residents' associations in Dharwad on Wednesday.
DHARWAD: Survey on ascertaining the number of houses to be demolished for the expansion of Hubli airport will begin on Thursday.

A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of 25 representatives of 10 residents' associations of the areas around Hubli airport here on Wednesday. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Commissioner M.S. Srikar.

Mr. Srikar said that 100 to 120 houses had to be demolished irrespective of the Government's decision to acquire 446 acres or 650 acres of land for the purpose.

Mr. Srikar gave a presentation on the airport expansion plan and displayed photographs and a map of the project.

He said the survey work would be completed in 10 days.

Warning the residents against middlemen, he asked them not to believe any person who promised them to get their houses dropped from the list of houses to be demolished. It was decided in the meeting to form a committee of residents to accompany the survey team.

A six-member committee comprising of Sridhar Pujar, B.G. Belliraya, G. Durgappa, L.S. Toravi, C.S. Bidari and Krishna Mane was formed for the purpose. Hubli tahsildar S.S. Nagathana was asked to provide necessary information to the survey team and the residents.

Mr. Srikar told the meeting that the survey was likely to take ten days to complete after which another meeting would be held to discuss various other related issues including acquisition process, compensation and so on.

Mr. Srikar said that no organisation or individual was entrusted with the work of ascertaining the number of houses to be acquired for the expansion project.

He asked the residents to approach the district administration for clarifications about the implementation of the project.

Assistant Commissioner Mohan Sasanur, and Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board Development Officer Ramakrishnappa were present in the meeting.