Fresh Social Impact Assessment for Sabarimala airport gets under way

Efforts to acquire land for the Sabarimala international airport are back on track as a new round of Social Impact Assessment (SIA) has been launched. A team from Bharata Mata College is collecting data to analyze the effects of the project on local communities in Erumely and Manimala villages. This is the second time the SIA is being conducted after previous notifications were revoked due to court intervention. The State government has issued a fresh notification for the SIA under the LARRA Act, and a new notification for land acquisition will be issued after receiving the SIA report.