1. The petitioner has approached this Court by these two writ petitions seeking compensation as well as employment.

2. The case of the petitioner is that he was assigned land comprising Survey No. 119/5, to an extent of 2.25 acres situate in No. 156, Veppankurichi Village, Virudhachalam Taluk and the said assignment was made in the year 1971 as “landless poor”.

3. Thereafter, for expansion of mining operation, the lands were proposed to be taken over under the Land Acquisition Act (hereinafter called as the Act), by Notification under Section 4(1) of the Act, dated 4.4.1990. After the Draft Notification under Section 6 of the Act, Draft declaration under Section 7 of the Act was approved by the Government and published in the Government Gazette on 17.5.1991. However, during award enquiry, the lands of the petitioner and two other persons were found to be assigned lands. Therefore, award was not passed in respect of those lands.

4. Though lands were acquired, no compensation was paid. Therefore, the petitioner has been approaching the authorities for compensation. The petitioner had already approached this Court earlier by filing Writ Petition No. 24678 of 2002. Though the