The Union ministry of petroleum, district collectors of Surat and Bharuch, land acquisition officer of the state government and the ONGC have been issued show cause notices by the Gujarat high court, as per Times Of India.
At least 97 farmers of Surat district's Olpad and Choryasi talukas and Bharuch district's Hansot and Ankleswar talukas had filed a petition in the high court submitting that proper procedure had not been followed in issuing the public notification for land for the project. The high court admitted the petition a few days ago and fixed the hearing on the matter for April 24. ONGC plans to supply Naphtha from Hazira to its subsidiary Opal in Dahej through a 12-inch pipeline that will pass through the four talukas of these two districts. The Central government notified this 102-km long pipeline project in 2010 and the land acquisition procedure for it was initiated in August-September 2012 allegedly without entertaining any objections from the affected farmers.
23-Apr-13 
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