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GAIL increases compensation to farmers [1]

Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) has announced a higher compensation to farmers in seven districts of the state on whose land through which it would be laying underground pipeline to take liquefied natural gas from Kochi to Bangalore.

“The revised scale has been fixed as per the directions of the State Government by which each farmer will now be getting a compensation equivalent to 13 per cent of the ‘new guideline value’ of the land utilised for laying pipeline plus an amount to offset the cost of crops displaced, if any, to facilitate digging of earth,” S. Angamuthu, senior manager of GAIL, told The Hindu .

Publication Date: 
07/09/2012
R. Vimal Kumar [2]
Hindu (New Delhi) [3]
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Tiruppur [4], Farmers [5], Compensation [6], Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) [7], Kochi [8], Bangalore (D) [9], High Court [10], Public Hearing [11], Land [12], Tamil Nadu [13]
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