Traffic chaos at the intersection of Thiruvankulam. | Photo Credit: File Photos
Hope came to life for motorists caught in the traffic growl in Thripunithura and around 286 landowners whose conspiracy of Thripunithura bypass was to be built three decades ago, with the Ministry of Road Transport and Morth (Morth), who decided to perform a member of the Board of Directors (Nhai).
Development comes as a result of Francis George, a deputy, with an “excessive delay” in the implementation of the project and the situation of people whose countries were frozen for the corridor with the Minister of Road Transport and the Nitin Gadkari motorway. According to the initial plan, the NH Wing Department was to build a corridor that was deleted to uncover the narrow part of Thripunithura, through which people were commuting to IDUKKI and Kottayam districts.
In his memorandum Mr. George pointed out that the project was not carried out, although the work began when VP Singh was prime minister, more than 30 years ago.
“The Minister of Trade unions said that steps would be taken to help realize the road project. I assumed that it was necessary to prepare a corridor to make the unfortunate thripunithura and also because 286 land owners in Mattakuzhi-Thiruvanulam railway corridor are unable to build buildings, sell their country or borrow with their land as safety.
He also mentioned two Greenfield National Highway corridors, whose alignment had gone through the stone from the alignment, which was released for Thripunithura, and suggested that one of them to develop a fake way to act as a bypass corridor.
After PWD was flooded in December 2023 by the requirements of landowners, population associations, NGOs and others, it insisted that either Nhai or Morth would build a two -lane, separate corridor by aligning Thripunithura bypass. To this end, PWD quoted how onus was on Morth, because it launched a bypass project (after PWD (NH wing) launched the land acquisition process). It also concerned a revised estimate of the cost of obtaining land, which was returned by the unapproved company Morth, with a “exaggerated increase” of what was a sanctioned estimate 30 years ago.
This resulted in only 4.40 hectares out of a total of 16 hectares, which were acquired in the phase of one of the project Thripunithura Bypass, covering 3.75 km section in Mattakuzhi-Thirvanulam railway corridor, PWD sources said.
The second phase of the section was to take off from a nearby point, when the first phase ended in Thironculum and extended to Kunnoor.
Published – April 3 2025 9:12
