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The project, estimated to value ₹658 crore, can be the third such greatest endeavor within the nation.
The official project launch of the proposed Anakkampoyil-Meppadi tunnel road was held at Thiruvambadi within the district on Monday. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan introduced the project launch via video conferencing within the presence of State Ministers and folks’s representatives.
Mr. Vijayan stated the tunnel road project estimated to value ₹658 crore can be the third such greatest endeavor within the nation. He stated it will be accomplished by complying with all the present ecological laws.
The Chief Minister additionally pointed that the sub-terrain road to be constructed by the Konkan Railway Corporation Limited would cut back the site visitors congestion on the hazardous Thamarassery Ghat road. “It would also be a boost for the domestic tourism sector and for the promotion of trade and commerce between Karnataka and the Malabar region”.
Referring to some of the environmental considerations raised by activists towards the seven-kilometre lengthy road project, Mr. Vijayan stated the Left Democratic Front-led Government was in favour of adopting an acceptable choice which may equally deal with the environmental considerations and the requirement of native growth. “We were not ready to succumb to unwanted controversies,” he clarified.
Minister for Public Works G. Sudhakaran, who presided over the occasion on-line, stated the tunnel road project may very well be accomplished in three years. “The State government has already agreed to sanction any additional amount required for the timely completion of the project,” he stated.
The launch occasion carried out by following COVID-19 protocol at Thiruvambadi was attended by the Minister for Labour and Excise T.P. Ramakrishnan, Parliament Member M.V. Shreyams Kumar, Thiruvambadi MLA George M. Thomas and Thamarassery Bishop Remigiose Inchananiyil.
It was in 2014 {that a} feasibility research of the progressive proposal was carried out by the Government to grasp an alternate road to Wayanad district. In 2016, it was formally accredited for additional proceedings and survey works. A number of months in the past, the State authorities accorded sanction to the estimate of ₹658 crore for implementation beneath Kerala State Infrastructure Investment Fund Board.
Officials who ready the preliminary estimate stated the fee to finish one kilometre stretch of the proposed road alone would come round ₹150 crore contemplating the extra growth necessities. It would additionally embrace the fee of establishing a 70-metre lengthy bridge at Kundanthodu. The complete size of the sub-terrain road can be seven kilometres.
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