Revenue Department to survey University of Kerala land at Palayam on High Court direction; AKG Centre site is at issue

6 October 2026

The Revenue Department has decided to measure and demarcate land belonging to the University of Kerala at Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram, from 10 am on Tuesday.
The survey follows a High Court division bench headed by Chief Justice Soumen Sen hearing a petition by R S Sasikumar, a University syndicate member and chairman of the Save University Campaign Committee.
In 1977 the then Chief Minister A K Antony allotted 15 cents of University land for the AKG Study and Research Centre; the District Collector later told the court in an affidavit that the University gave 15 cents more.
The petitioner says the Centre now holds 55 cents; the Thiruvananthapuram Tahsildar said that only the University's land would be measured on Tuesday.
The CPM, whose state committee office functioned at AKG Centre until recently, holds that the court-approved survey covers only land in the University's possession.