MANGALORE: The Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ) stopped construction work of a huge wall on 37 acres of land, belonging to 12 families including 11 Kudubi community members, at Kudubipadau following objections from Permude gram panchayat on Friday.

The gram panchayat served notice directing MSEZ officials to stop the construction work in the land on Thursday. The government had notified 2,035 acres land for the Phase II of MSEZ in May 2007, but later the denotification was made only for 1,998 acres as Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board ( KIADB) had already handed over 37 acres land in Kudubipadavu to MSEZ.

While some families on the land had already taken compensation, 12 families refused and continued their fight to get their land back.

The contractors of MSEZ were continuing the work on construction of a wall on 37 acres land on Friday too. However, later in the afternoon work was stopped following objections from the gram panchayat, Krishi Bhoomi Samrakshana Samiti (KBSS) and M P Nalin Kumar Kateel.

KBSS also filed a complaint to the deputy commissioner and taluk panchayat executive officer against MSEZ for carrying out construction work without obtaining permission from Permude gram panchayat. Without the mandatory written permissions from the concerned Panchayat, all the construction works being carried out over the past two years by the MSEZL and its constituent units are to be viewed as illegal and in violation of the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act, KBSS members alleged in the complaint.

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