chennai a tiruvannamalaibased educational institution whose 36 acres had been acquired by the state for an industrial expansion scheme has failed to earn any reprieve from the madras high court sri venkateswara educational and charitable trust which runs several educational institutions on its sprawling campus at cheyyar approached the high court questioning the move to take over 63 acres for the sipcot industrial expansion scheme it wanted 362 acres to be exempted from acquisition saying it was planning to start an engineering college at the site noting that the acquisition notification was published for a total of 63 acres it said the trust wrote to the district collector for the exemption though the district administration forwarded the letter to the special commissioner for land administration with a recommendation that the exemption be given the government issued a final notification directing the trust to surrender the entire land justice k chandru pointed out that the additional government pleader had produced a copy of a government order dated march 27 2012 rejecting the exemption request of the trust on the ground that it would disturb the contiguity of the industrial expansion scheme after considering the proposal sent by the district collector and commissioner the state government held that there was no case for grant of exemption it was submitted concurring with the governments submissions justice chandru pointed out that there was no construction activity on the lands and added that the sipcot was of the view that any exemption would adversely affect their expansion programme in view of the above there is no case made out to entertain the petition this court is satisfied that necessary statutory procedures had been followed before the acquisition he said