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The Central Government declares its intention to acquire land for the execution of a Special Railway Project, specifically the construction of a Road Over Bridge in Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh.

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The Ministry of Railways (East Coast Railway (Construction)) issued Notification S.O. 13(E) on January 2, 2026, in Bhubaneswar, exercising powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 20A of the Railways (Amendment) Act, 1989 (24/89). This notification declares the Central Government's intention to acquire land for a public purpose, specifically for the "Construction of Road Over Bridge in lieu of closing of manned LC No ML-447 at Km 786/3-5 between Sigdam - Cheepurupalli on Main Line of Waltair Division" in Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh. Interested persons may raise objections to this acquisition within thirty (30) days from the notification's publication date in the Official Gazette, as per sub-section (1) of section 20D of the said Act. Objections must be submitted in writing to the Competent Authority Land Acquisition (CALA), identified as The Revenue Divisional officer (RDO), Cheepurupalli, who will provide an opportunity for a hearing. The Competent Authority's order under sub-section (2) of section 20D shall be final. The land plans and details are available for inspection at the Competent Authority's office. The acquisition involves a total of 6.944 acres across Kapusambhham (3.54 acres including 2.10 acres private dry land and 1.44 acres government land), Purreyavalasa (0.457 acres including 0.417 acres private dry land and 0.04 acres government land), and Sumitrapuram (2.947 acres including 1.139 acres private dry land and 1.808 acres government land). The notification was signed by Ajaya Kumar Samal, Chief Engineer (Construction-II).

Full Text

REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99 The Gazette of India CG-OR-E-03012026-269075 EXTRAORDINARY PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (ii) PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 13] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 2026/PAUSHA 12, 1947 [F. No. CAO/CON/RSP/WAT/ROBs/447/20A] MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS [East Coast Railway (Construction)] NOTIFICATION Bhubaneswar, the 2nd January, 2026 Notice under Section 20A of the Railways Act - 1989 S.O. 13(E).—In exercise of powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 20A of the Railways (Amendment) Act, 1989 (24/89) (herein after referred as the said Act.), the Central Government, after being satisfied that for the public purpose, the Land, brief description of which is given in the schedule annexed here to is required for the execution of Special Railway Project, namely, “Construction of Road Over Bridge in lieu of closing of manned LC No ML- 447 at Km 786/3-5 between Sigdam - Cheepurupalli on Main Line of Waltair Division" in Vizianagaram district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, hereby declares its intention to acquire such land. Any person interested in the said land may within a period of (30) thirty days from the date of publication of the notification in the Official Gazette, raise objection to the acquisition of such land for the aforesaid purpose under sub-section(1) of section 20D of the said Act. Every objection shall be made to the competent authority, namely Competent Authority Land Acquisition (CALA) i.e. The Revenue Divisional officer (RDO), Cheepurupalli for Construction of Road Over Bridge in lieu of closing of manned LC No ML-447 at Km 786/3-5 between Sigdam - Cheepurupalli on Main Line of Waltair Division" in writing, and shall set out grounds thereof and competent authority shall give the objector an opportunity of being head, either in person or through a legal practitioner and may after hearing all such objections and after making such further inquiry if any as the competent authority thinks necessary by order either allow or disallow the objections. Any order made by the competent authority under sub-section (2) of 20D of the said Act shall be final. The land plans and other details of the land covered under this notification are available and can be inspected by the interested person at the aforesaid office of the competent authority. SCHEDULE Brief description of land attached here with to be acquired with or without structures for Special Railway Project namely "Construction of Road Over Bridge in lieu of closing of manned LC No ML-447 at Km 786/3-5 between Sigdam - Cheepurupalli on Main Line of Waltair Division" in Vizianagaram district in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Name of the District & State: Vizianagaram & Andhra Pradesh (Annexure-I) +-----------------+-------+----------------------+------------------+-------------------+--------------------+------------------+ | Name of the village | SI.NO | Survey Number/LPM NO | Total Area in Acre | Acquired area in Acre | Classification | Type of land | +=================+=======+======================+==================+===================+====================+==================+ | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 1 | 137-19 | 0.15 | 0.03 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 2 | 137-20 | 0.2 | 0.04 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 3 | 137-33 | 0.95 | 0.11 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 4 | 137-34 | 0.99 | 0.06 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 5 | 137-35 | 0.92 | 0.07 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 6 | 137-36 | 0.48 | 0.48 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 7 | 138-5 | 1.71 | 0.12 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | | | | | | | (AREA ERATA) | | KAPUSAHBHAM | 8 | 138-6 | 1.06 | 0.03 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | | | | | | | (AREA ERATA) | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 9 | 138-7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | | | | | | | (AREA ERATA) | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 10 | 143-1 | 0.52 | 0.04 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 11 | 143-2 | 0.25 | 0.03 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | KAPUSAHBHAM | 12 | 143-3 | 0.22 | 0.03 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 13 | 143-4 | 0.81 | 0.12 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 14 | 143-6 | 0.18 | 0.06 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 15 | 143-7 | 0.34 | 0.07 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 16 | 143-8 | 0.41 | 0.08 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 17 | 143-9 | 0.19 | 0.17 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 18 | 143-10 | 0.15 | 0.17 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 19 | 143-11 | 0.39 | 0.22 | RYTHWARI METTU | D-PATTA | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 20 | 144-1 | 0.17 | 0.03 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 21 | 144-4 | 0.09 | 0.02 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 22 | 144-5 | 0.09 | 0.02 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHBHAM | 23 | 144-6 | 0.17 | 0.06 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 24 | 144-7 | 0.07 | 0.03 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 25 | 144-8 | 0.06 | 0.02 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 26 | 144-9 | 0.21 | 0.06 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 27 | 144-10 | 0.4 | 0.09 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 28 | 145-4 | 0.1 | 0.04 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHBHAM | 29 | 145-5 | 0.10 | 0.02 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 30 | 145-15 | 0.12 | 0.07 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 31 | 145-16 | 0.03 | 0.04 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 32 | 145-17 | 0.06 | 0.04 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHBHAM | 33 | 145-18 | 0.24 | 0.23 | RYTHWARI METTU | RASTA | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 34 | 145-19 | 0.25 | 0.18 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHBHAM | 35 | 145-20 | 0.07 | 0.03 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 36 | 145-21 | 0.03 | 0.02 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | | KAPUSAHВНАМ | 37 | 145-25 | 0.11 | 0.01 | RYTHWARI METTU | PRIVATE LAND | +-----------------+-------+----------------------+------------------+-------------------+--------------------+------------------+ | TOTAL EXTENT | | | 12.69 | 3.54 | | | +-----------------+-------+----------------------+------------------+-------------------+--------------------+------------------+ | PURREYAVALASA | 1 | 1 | 5.81 | 0.417 | RYTHWARI PUNJA | PRIVATE LAND | +-----------------+-------+----------------------+------------------+-------------------+--------------------+------------------+ | PURREYAVALASA | 2 | 1018 | 0.15 | 0.04 | SARKAR PORAMBOKU | GOVERNMENT LAND | +-----------------+-------+----------------------+------------------+-------------------+--------------------+------------------+ | TOTAL EXTENT | | | 5.96 | 0.457 | | | +-----------------+-------+----------------------+------------------+-------------------+--------------------+------------------+ | SUMITRAPURAM | 1 | 81 | 1.56 | 0.28 | ANADHINA PUNJA | GOVERNMENT LAND | | SUMITRAPURAM | 2 | 82 | 0.15 | 0.018 | ANADHINA PUNJA | GOVERNMENT LAND | | SUMITRAPURAM | 3 | 83 | 0.27 | 0.04 | SARKAR PUNJA | PRIVATE LAND | | SUMITRAPURAM | 4 | 84 | 0.94 | 0.32 | SARKAR PORAMBOKU | GOVERNMENT LAND | | SUMITRAPURAM | 5 | 88 | 1.72 | 0.24 | SARKAR PORAMBOKU | GOVERNMENT LAND | | SUMITRAPURAM | 6 | 90 | 1.58 | 0.669 | SARKAR PUNJA | PRIVATE LAND | | SUMITRAPURAM | 7 | 99 | 0.15 | 0.02 | ANADHINA PUNJA | GOVERNMENT LAND | | SUMITRAPURAM | 8 | 100 | 10.11 | 0.79 | SARKAR PORAMBOKU | GOVERNMENT LAND | | SUMITRAPURAM | 9 | 128 | 0.70 | 0.43 | SARKAR PUNJA | PRIVATE LAND | | SUMITRAPURAM | 10 | 129 | 1.42 | 0.14 | SARKAR PORAMBOKU | GOVERNMENT LAND | +-----------------+-------+----------------------+------------------+-------------------+--------------------+------------------+ | TOTAL EXTENT | | | 18.60 | 2.947 | | | +-----------------+-------+----------------------+------------------+-------------------+--------------------+------------------+ Abstract +-------+-----------------+-------+-------+-----------+-----------------------+ | S.NO. | VILLAGE NAME | PRIVATE LAND | GOVT LAND | TOTAL REQUIRED LAND | | | +-------+-------+ | | | | | Dry | Wet | | | +=======+=================+=======+=======+===========+=======================+ | 1 | KAPUSAMBHAM | 2.10 | 0.00 | 1.44 | 3.54 | +-------+-----------------+-------+-------+-----------+-----------------------+ | 2 | PURREYAVALASA | 0.417 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.457 | +-------+-----------------+-------+-------+-----------+-----------------------+ | 3 | SUMITRAPURAM | 1.139 | 0.00 | 1.808 | 2.947 | +-------+-----------------+-------+-------+-----------+-----------------------+ | TOTAL | | | | | 6.944 | +-------+-----------------+-------+-------+-----------+-----------------------+ [F. No. CAO/CON/RSP/WAT/ROBs/447/20A] AJAYA KUMAR SAMAL, Chief Engineer (Construction-II) Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054.

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