The Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) has commenced reassessment of compensation to around 650 farmers in Tirupur district on whose land through which it would be laying underground pipeline to take liquefied natural gas from Kochi to Bangalore.

“This exercise is taken up only with an aim to enhance the compensation scale as many farmers have been expressing that the amounts initially fixed for laying the underground pipeline through their fields was inadequate to offset the cost of crops displaced to facilitate digging of earth,” GAIL officials told The Hindu .