Countless sections on foot on the Kaloor-Kadavantho road owned by GCDA are in debris. | Photo Credit: H. Vibhu
The alleged delay in clearing interventions in arterial roads and to obtain small tracts of soil led to the rebuilding of drainage, pedestrian trails and allied infrastructure into Kaloor-Kadavantho Road (KK Road) and several other arterial roads.
They were admitted years ago on the French-economic non-motorized project (NMT) at a height of 111 GBP. The project was assumed on both sides of the ALUVA-Thripunithura metro corridor and included key arterial roads such as KK Road and Hospital Road.
KK Road, owned by the Office for the Development of the Greater Cochin (GCDA), otherwise due to the alleged delay by the government in accordance with the sanction, it performed subtitles for performing resurfacing work with an area of 2,50 GBP. It also attracted the anger of the Krala High Court, with several motorists who met with an accident after they were caught by not recognized that they tried to interfere with the intervention of the court to become a safe and motor corridor.
Incomplete work of NMT
While the road should be maintained by GCDA, the agency temporarily handed over drains and sidewalks on both sides of Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) for the reconstruction of the NMT Metro project, which was supported by AfD, a French agency, a French agency that extended the ALUVA-MG Road One Project loan. As such, only 70 % of the remediation work ended.
Sources in GCDA said KMRL “ran out of funds” after completion of 70% of the reconstruction. “Now it depends on the GCDA or Kochi Corporation, which is expected to pass the KK Road to complete the rest of the NMT project. To do this, one of these agencies would have to get in both places that would also add on both pages that could add on both sides adding to add that adds that they would add on which they would add. Both pages that would add that are added and adding to both pages that add that they are added.
Meanwhile, the KMRL sources said that the funds that AfD assigned to the NMT project failed due to the GCDA delay in handing over the necessary land and to clear the interveners in several locations. “There is little progress, even though meetings have been held in this respect,” they said.
Kmrl promising
CEO of KMRL Lokath Behera said the metro agency is trying to obtain “unused” NMT funds from AfD. “Once we get funds, they will participate in some of the unfinished projects,” he added.
The KMRL NMT project in the section of Manorama Junction-Vyttila-Petah is incomplete due to a disproportionate delay by Kochi Corporation and the Department of Public Work in Calcling Interventions.
Published – 4th August 2025 01:22
