Kozhikode, Friday 28 January 2011: Decks have been cleared for the district administration to hand over the documents of the 60 acres of land at Arekkarakunnu at Nadapuram to the Union Home Ministry for establishing a camp of the BSF.

The Kerala High Court had earlier this week given clearance to the proposal vacating its earlier directive restricting the State government not to hand over the land at Nadapuram to the BSF.

Officials said that the government had taken over the land as excess land in Vadakara taluk. It was part of the 273.93 acres of excess land in the possession of the government.

The Union Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran, Minister for Industries Elamaram Karim, Minister for Forest Benoy Viswom, Minister for Revenue K.P. Rajendran will take part in the function.

Apart from handing over the 60 acre of land to the BSF, the district administration plans to allot five acres for setting up a Kendriya Vidyalaya. Besides this, 30 acres would be provided to the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation and the Nadapuram Development Project.

Earlier report

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday vacated its earlier directive not to hand over the land at Nadapuram in Kozhikode to the Border Security Force (BSF) for establishing a camp.

Justice Antony Dominic vacated the directive on a petition filed by the State government seeking to review the judgment containing the directive. The verdict was passed while disposing of a writ petition filed by M.M. George who claimed that the 60 acres proposed to be handed over belonged to him.

The land was taken over by the government as excess land. It was part of the 273.93 acres of excess land in the possession of the government. The court had ordered that the land should not be handed over to the BSF till the Vadakara Taluk Land Board decided on the application filed by George.

Additional Advocate-General Ranjith Thampan argued that the petitioner was unable to pinpoint where the 60 acres of land.

(News agency)