The State government on Tuesday informed the Kerala High Court that the social impact assessment (SIA) survey for the K-Rail project was being conducted through digital methods such as geotagging wherever people take objection to laying survey stones.
The submission was made by the government pleader when a writ petition challenging the laying of survey stones without issuing prior notices to landowners came up for hearing before Justice Devan Ramachandran.
When the government submitted that it did not propose to instal survey stones without the permission of the landowners, the Judge observed that this was what the court had been telling the government throughout. The government had then tried to dismiss the opposition to the laying of survey stones as being actuated by certain other motives. In fact, the court was trying to put the government on the right track.
