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Transmission Right of Way
Corridor walked, optimised, compensated and cleared — span by span.
The Problem
One orchard in the middle of a 40 km corridor can hold an entire commissioned project.
Right of way is where good projects die quietly. The route is drawn in an office on a map. Then the line meets a village, a mango orchard, a borewell, or a landowner in the middle of a forty-kilometre corridor who has no reason to cooperate and every reason to wait.
Every week of RoW delay after mechanical completion is generation that is never sold. Unlike land acquisition, there is no alternative parcel — the corridor either clears or the asset sits idle.
The compounding error is sequence: routes are finalised before anyone walks them, so the corridor is legally fixed before its actual obstructions are known.
Our Response
How we run it
We walk the corridor before it is finalised, and we clear it village by village. Route optimisation to design out the hardest crossings, landowner engagement ahead of survey rather than after, compensation determined under the Ministry of Power’s June 2024 guidelines, and objections closed through the District Administration on record.
Process
Stage by stage
| # | Stage | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Corridor reconnaissance | Physical walk-down of the proposed alignment. Habitations, orchards, structures, borewells, water bodies, forest patches, existing line crossings and access constraints recorded span by span. |
| 02 | Route optimisation | Alternative alignments modelled to minimise habitation and orchard crossings and rationalise angle points. Design changes here cost days; changes after finalisation cost months. |
| 03 | Village-level engagement | Prior notice, Gram Panchayat briefing, and crop-season sequencing so survey and stringing avoid standing crops. |
| 04 | Compensation determination | Under the Ministry of Power guidelines dated 14 June 2024, applicable to lines of 66 kV and above: 200% of land value for the tower base area (including a one-metre extension on each side), and 30% of land value for the RoW corridor. Valuation on guidance/circle rate, or prevailing market rate where higher. Determined by the Deputy Commissioner; paid one-time and upfront. |
| 05 | Objection handling | Objections recorded, verified on site, and resolved through the District Administration with a written trail. |
| 06 | Disbursement & documentation | Payment records, receipts and indemnities compiled per landowner and per span. |
| 07 | Stringing support | Crop compensation, access track arrangement and on-ground escalation cover through the construction window. |
Deliverables
What you hold at the end
Assessment
- Corridor walk-down report with span-wise risk map
- Optimised route alignment with angle-point schedule and rationale for each deviation
- Landowner register per span — extent affected, tower base area, corridor area, contact and consent status
Settlement
- Compensation working per landowner, computed under the MoP 2024 guidelines
- Deputy Commissioner’s compensation determination order
- Objection log with resolution status and dates
- Disbursement records, receipts and indemnity documents
- Corridor clearance certificate pack
Send us your line route. We’ll walk it and report in three weeks.
You’ll get a span-wise risk map, an optimised alignment proposal, and an indicative compensation exposure under the current MoP guidelines.