Summary:
Legal wrangles, delays in paying compensation to land owners, and lack of progress in land acquisition has left the project in a limbo. It is learnt that the District Revenue Officer, Land Acquisition, ORR, has written to the government to accelerate the pending land acquisition process so as to avert financial constraints to government. The first and second phase of the ORR Project got administrative sanction in 1995 and 1998. While the first phase cost the exchequer Rs 1081.40 crore, the second phase cost Rs 1,075 crore. While the land acquisition was opposed by the tahsildar, it was turned down by Madras HC and the State sanctioned a sum of `87.53 lakh..