Salt and Sanction
A coastal licensing regime that granted the same lease four times over.
Alappuzha·By M. Thomas & Asha Verghese·Kerala desk
Four companies held what each believed was an exclusive lease on the same 42 hectares of backwater. We obtained all four instruments and found the same surveyor's signature on three, dated across a nine-month window.
What it changed
Two leases cancelled; licensing moved to a public register.
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