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A total of 58 families would beryllium shifted from the slope of the Buckingham Canal at Thoraipakkam and 63 families on patta lands connected the Neelankarai side to commence work connected the alloy span connecting Rajiv Gandhi Salai (also known as OMR) with the East Coast Road (ECR).
Having obtained each clearances, including from the Inland Waterway Authority, a no-objection certificate from the Water Resources Department (WRD), and 1 from the SEIAA, the Highways Department has acceptable the shot successful motion.
The six-lane high-level facility costing ₹ 36 crore will person a height clearance of 4 mts from the precocious tide line, frankincense allowing capable abstraction for the passage of boats beneath.
The bridge, which is simply a portion of the ₹270 crore project connecting OMR and ECR, will instrumentality disconnected from the hold of the Pallavaram -Thoraipakkam Radial Road and onshore astir 200 mts from the ECR. Land acquisition unsocial outgo the task ₹ 200 crore and the civil outgo of laying roads and operation of the span ₹ 70 crore.
Sources said that the department had written to the Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board seeking allotment for 58 families who had settled on the Canal connected the Thoraipakkam side. “They are located on WRD onshore and are to beryllium shifted to houses identified by the Board. Each tenement volition outgo ₹ 3.5 lakh. The Greater Chennai Corporation has enumerated the beneficiaries and notices issued. Once these families move, the 680-metre-long roadworthy volition beryllium extended to the constituent wherever the span volition instrumentality off,” explained an authoritative source.
On the Neelankarai side, a few persons have gone to tribunal against the acquisition of their lands. Orders person been reserved successful the matter. As galore arsenic 63 houses are to beryllium demolished.
Federation of Thoraipakkam Residents’ Welfare Associations president A. Francis, who welcomed the additional connectivity to the ECR, said that attraction indispensable beryllium taken to guarantee pedestrian facilities on the radial road. “Already caller flat complexes are coming up along the caller road. Foot overbridges with escalators and elevators should be constructed.”
