A high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday decided in principle to give another 88 cents of land to St. Albert’s College to compensate for the takeover of the land for Kochi Metro.
The college will be given 14 cents that the government had acquired from an unauthorised nursery behind the college ground and another 74 cents belonging to Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) as per the compensation package.
The GCDA, in turn, will be compensated with 60 cents from the 72 cents of land owned by the government and located behind the Kerala High Court. Official sources said the other formalities would be worked out on the basis of the agreement reached between the college authorities and the government.
The row over the handing over of the college ground adjoining the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium at Kaloor had been a stumbling block in the progress of the metro work.
