ELIPE DHARMA RAO, J.

1. Since the issue involved in all these matters is one and the same and they all having been filed challenging the very same common order passed by a learned single Judge of this Court, these matters are heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment.

2. In G.O.Ms.No.125, Industries (MID1) Department, dated 9.5.1997, administrative sanction was accorded by the Government of Tamil Nadu for acquisition of lands over an extent of 636.88.0 hectares by invoking the urgency clause 17(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 and transfer of an extent of 190.34.0 hectares poramboke lands in favour of Tamil Nadu Corporation for Industrial Infrastructure Development Limited (TACID), which has been subsequently merged with State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (SIPCOT), for setting up of an Industrial Complex at Oragadam and in eight other villages in Sriperumbudur Taluk, Kancheepuram District. The Government, having felt that there is steady increase in the demand for industrial lands in close proximity to Chennai, has decided to take up expansion of the existing Oragadam Industrial Complex and identified 395.87.5 hectares