thiruvananthapuram the cag report reveals that in march this year state industries department has not taken any action to evict the encroachments on industrial land and has violated lease rules in land allotment to industrial units and prospective entrepreneurs in the form of development area da and development plots dp for industrial use the department had promoted 38 das and dps up to march last year having a total area of 244372 acre and of that it has allotted 20495 acre to 2563 industrial units in these da and dps as on sept 30 last yearthough new lease rules came into effect from 10 june 2013 cag finds land allotments were made violating them cag observes that the district industries centre dic thrissur general manager gm allotted 52 cents land to a defunct unit in dp velakkode and transferred it to another firm by hire purchase rules instead of lease rules the gm replied in march this year that the allotment was made as per the directions of industries director in may last yeardespite the instructions of industries director to the gms that industrial land was not allowed to be used as a means to make private gains by engaging in real estate deals cag observes that the allottees of industrial land transferred the same to others in contravention of the rules by adopting methods like changing the constitution of ownership of the firm by bringing in new directions on subleasing or by transfer of ownership on grounds of loan defaultjoint inspection conducted by audit team with industries department officials in sept last year at dp ayyankunnu in thrissur revealed transfer of land without the knowledge of dic thrissur about 25 cents land allotted to promise industries was found to be used by envirogreen carrybags india limited without the approval of dic the state government in march this year indicates that transfer of land has been regularised by industries director in a survey conducted in nov last year by ernakulum dic 72 cases of violations relating to unauthorised transfers of land change constitution were identified and show cause notices issued which reiterates the audit observationscag observes that an extent of 9056 acre excess land in possession of instrumentation limited palakkad was handed over to industries department for setting up da dp in pudussery palakkad the land was kept idle till date without allotment though applicants have been waiting for allotment during joint verification in march this year it was found that 30 cents land was encroached by few families but not yet evicted in reply government in march this year stated that land was never under dic palakkad while cag observes that the reply is not acceptable as the land was transferred in july 1994 to industries department and the dic palakkad gm took over the land on 22 july 1997further 11507 acre industrial land at kanjikode under dic palakkad was allotted during dec 1988 and july 1992 by revenue department free of cost to kseb on condition that kseb