Parandur airport scrapped: What happens to the land now?

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay has formally scrapped the projected ₹27,400-crore Parandur greenfield airdrome project, bringing an extremity to years of protests by villagers and farmers. But the determination has triggered a caller question: what happens to the thousands of acres of onshore that were already acquired for the project? Can the authorities instrumentality the onshore to archetypal owners? What does the Land Acquisition Act say? And what options does Tamil Nadu person present that the task has been shelved? In this explainer, we interruption down the ineligible provisions, the presumption of acquired land, erstwhile examples of onshore instrumentality successful Tamil Nadu, and what the aboriginal could clasp for Parandur and its residents.