Total station survey needed to regain lost land

KOCHI: The Cusat authorities have submitted before the Kerala High Court that a total station survey is necessary to regain the missing land at the south-east and south-west corners of the Pipeline Road.   The university authorities said that about 51.5 cents at the south-east corner are missing from its property. Cusat Registrar A Ramachandran filed the statement in the High Court in response to a petition filed by Girish Babu of Kalamassery through counsel Joseph Rony Jose seeking a directive to identify the missing land of the university through proper and effective surveys.   The university authorities said that there was a government order directing it to conduct a survey to identify the missing land. The Registrar submitted that the university had taken earnest efforts to measure the extent of actual land given by the government. However, the Survey Department did not properly conduct the re-survey proceedings by fixing the boundaries. The area of Cusat campus is 183.36 acres. The land was acquired in 1962 and 1965.  “In all, 51.5 cents were found missing from the Cusat land, which was claimed by a person M A Thankamma. According to the survey map obtained from the Re-survey Department, that property is marked as private. “However, the university raised objection against the construction activities on the land,” the Registrar said. The university authorities further said that the Survey Department did not inform it on fixing of the boundaries of the land.   They conducted the survey, including all private properties near the university. “Serious lapses were found on the part of the Survey Department from the first re-survey up to the recently completed total station survey,” the university authorities said.