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Addressing a long-standing request and taking the archetypal measurement to alteration the commercialized bosom of Kollam, a blueprint of Chinnakada skyway and municipality parkland task has been officially submitted to Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan. The broad plan, with an estimated fund of ₹200 crore, was handed implicit by Minister for Labour, Dairy Development, Animal Husbandry, and Women and Child Development Bindu Krishna, alongside Kollam MP N.K. Premachandran and Kollam Mayor A.K. Hafeez.
The ambitious task was conceived to code the grievance of the section concern assemblage and municipality planners. According to them, the monolithic factual partition of the existing railway overbridge had severely blocked the visibility of adjacent commercialized establishments, portion besides hindering pedestrian question and stripping Chinnakada of its aesthetic appeal. The caller plan aims to rectify these issues by dismantling the partition portion afloat retaining the existent overbridge and underpass, replacing it with a sleek, modern elevated flyover.
Implemented successful 2 chiseled phases, the archetypal signifier of the task volition absorption connected constructing a 900-m-long flyover stretching from the Chinnakada Clock Tower to Convent Junction. This phase, which is estimated to outgo astir ₹120 crore, volition besides absorption connected processing the crushed beneath the flyover into unfastened nationalist spaces and lush greenish zones.
The 2nd signifier volition widen the improvement by different 400 meters, connecting the Clock Tower to the Public Library astatine an estimated outgo of ₹80 crore. A cardinal item of the full task is the utilisation of the abstraction beneath the skyway, which volition beryllium converted into a state-of-the-art municipality parkland featuring unfastened playgrounds, landscaped gardens, pedestrian walkways, and dedicated spaces for assemblage activities.
