What is the Palakkad Kozhikode highway cost and length?

The project’s estimated cost is ₹8,000 crore, split roughly equally between ₹4,000 crore for construction and ₹4,000 crore for acquiring 547.407 hectares. The corridor is 121 km long, designed as a four or six-lane access-controlled highway.

Which villages Palakkad Malappuram Kozhikode districts does the alignment cross?

The 22 notified villages include Marutharode in Palakkad, Vazhayur in Malappuram, and Iringallur, Olavanna, and Perumanna in Kozhikode. The full survey number list is in the NHAI 3(A) notification held by each district Special Tahsildar.

Does the highway pass through Silent Valley National Park?

No, the alignment does not enter the park itself, but a 10-metre elevated stretch near Mannarkkad runs close to the boundary and inside the 10 km draft eco-sensitive zone. Land use in that ESZ buffer is restricted.

Can paddy land near the alignment be sold as a plot in Kerala?

No, not directly. If the parcel is in the Land Data Bank as nilam, it cannot be sold as buildable. Conversion under Section 27A or the KLU Order Form 6 route requires prior RDO sanction before any construction.

When will construction on the Palakkad Kozhikode Greenfield Highway begin?

NHAI has secured roughly 542 out of 569.3 hectares as of 2025, and land takeover in Perumanna and Olavanna is in final stages. Civil works commence after compensation disbursement through bank accounts is completed.

What is the KLU Order Form 6 conversion route used for?

Form 6 applies to unnotified paddy land under 20.23 Ares (roughly 50 cents). The application goes to the Revenue Divisional Officer under Section 27A of the 2008 Act. Larger parcels or Data Bank-listed land follow a separate committee route.

How much land is being acquired for the greenfield highway?

NHAI has notified 547.407 hectares within a 45-metre right of way along the 121 km alignment, running from Marutharode village in Palakkad to Pantheeramkavu in Kozhikode.

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Palakkad-Kozhikode Greenfield Highway

Q: Where does the Palakkad Kozhikode Greenfield Highway land corridor start and end?

The alignment is officially fixed by NHAI. It starts at Marutharode village in Palakkad on NH-544 and ends at Pantheeramkavu in Kozhikode on NH-66, covering 121.006 km through 22 villages in three districts.

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Overview

The Palakkad Kozhikode Greenfield Highway land corridor is a 121 km, four to six lane access-controlled national highway under Bharatmala Pariyojana, cleared by NHAI to run from Marutharode village in Palakkad to Pantheeramkavu in Kozhikode.

NHAI has notified 547.407 hectares within a 45-metre right of way, cutting the Kozhikode-Palakkad drive from four hours to two. This page covers the notified alignment, the Kerala paddy land conversion overlay, and the checks buyers must run before signing a sale deed in any of the 22 affected villages.

Kerala Paddy Land Data Bank and the NHAI 3(A) Land Acquisition Overlap

The most consequential trap on this corridor is not the highway notification. It is what the parcel is recorded as in the Kerala Land Data Bank. Under the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act, 2008, any land classified as nilam (paddy) or wetland in the LDB cannot be built on until formally converted.

Then NHAI’s 3(A) notification adds a second lock: once notified, the parcel cannot be transferred with clean title, and compensation follows the Land Acquisition Collector’s valuation, not the sale price agreed with the seller.

The table below shows the document stack every buyer must verify on a plot within the notified stretch.

Kerala Paddy Land Data Bank and the NHAI 3(A) Land Acquisition Overlap

Document / Zone

What It Governs

Required Before Purchase?

Common Trap

NHAI 3(A) / 3(D) notification

Highway acquisition strip (45m RoW)

Confirm survey number outside strip

Sold as farmland already notified

Land Data Bank (LDB) entry

Paddy or wetland classification

LDB check at Krishi Bhavan

Marketed as purayidam while LDB says nilam

Form 6 (under 20.23 Ares)

Small-plot conversion route

Filed with RDO

Missing RDO sanction

BTR / Basic Tax Register

Village-level revenue category

Village Office extract

Old BTR without correction

Section 27A permission

Unnotified land use change

RDO order in hand

Assumed automatic

Document / Zone

What It Governs

Required Before Purchase?

Common Trap

NHAI 3(A) / 3(D) notification

Highway acquisition strip (45m RoW)

Confirm survey number outside strip

Sold as farmland already notified

Land Data Bank (LDB) entry

Paddy or wetland classification

LDB check at Krishi Bhavan

Marketed as purayidam while LDB says nilam

Form 6 (under 20.23 Ares)

Small-plot conversion route

Filed with RDO

Missing RDO sanction

BTR / Basic Tax Register

Village-level revenue category

Village Office extract

Old BTR without correction

Section 27A permission

Unnotified land use change

RDO order in hand

Assumed automatic

If the seller cannot show the current LDB extract, the BTR, and written confirmation the survey number is outside NHAI’s 3(A) notification, the plot is not sellable in any meaningful sense. No panchayat receipt substitutes for a Revenue Divisional Officer order.

Growth Corridors: Mannarkkad, Iringallur and the Silent Valley Buffer

The alignment runs east to west across Palakkad, Malappuram, and Kozhikode districts, with a 10-metre elevated section near Silent Valley National Park in Mannarkkad. That elevated segment fixes the Mannarkkad corridor as a through-traffic zone, not an interchange market.

Land value uplift concentrates around the trumpet interchange at Iringallur in Kozhikode, the first such junction in northern Kerala.

The table below sorts the notable localities by investment logic along the Palakkad Kozhikode Greenfield Highway land corridor.

Growth Corridors: Mannarkkad, Iringallur and the Silent Valley Buffer

Corridor / Locality

District

Growth Driver

Known Risk

Marutharode

Palakkad

NH-544 tie-in, KINFRA Kanjikode logistics

Paddy-heavy revenue records

Kanjikode – Kannambra

Palakkad

Existing industrial estate, freight demand

Data Bank paddy entries in periphery

Mannarkkad

Palakkad

Elevated corridor, Silent Valley 10 km ESZ

Forest ESZ buffer restrictions

Vazhayur

Malappuram

Mid-corridor connectivity

Local action committee protests

Iringallur

Kozhikode

Trumpet interchange

Speculative pricing already peaked

Olavanna – Perumanna

Kozhikode

NH-66 junction, city-side spillover

Higher acquisition density

Corridor / Locality

District

Growth Driver

Known Risk

Marutharode

Palakkad

NH-544 tie-in, KINFRA Kanjikode logistics

Paddy-heavy revenue records

Kanjikode – Kannambra

Palakkad

Existing industrial estate, freight demand

Data Bank paddy entries in periphery

Mannarkkad

Palakkad

Elevated corridor, Silent Valley 10 km ESZ

Forest ESZ buffer restrictions

Vazhayur

Malappuram

Mid-corridor connectivity

Local action committee protests

Iringallur

Kozhikode

Trumpet interchange

Speculative pricing already peaked

Olavanna – Perumanna

Kozhikode

NH-66 junction, city-side spillover

Higher acquisition density

The most misread locality is Mannarkkad. Buyers assume the elevated highway near Silent Valley boosts adjacent plots. It does the opposite. The corridor sits inside the 10 km eco-sensitive zone drafted for Silent Valley National Park, which restricts new construction, quarrying, and change of land use. Before treating any Mannarkkad plot as buildable, cross-check the ESZ draft notification against the survey number.