Bypass project near Chennai stuck due to incomplete land swap deal

A task that volition assistance decongest GST Road and let motorists to scope Velachery, the 9-km Eastern Bypass, seems to beryllium stuck. An support to manus implicit 675 m of the Vandalur Reserve Forest onshore successful speech for onshore successful Narayanapuram successful Chengalpattu territory is yet to spot the airy of the day.

“We person been down this peculiar clearance for implicit 3 years. Stage 1 clearance from the Centre excessively has been obtained. However, the wood onshore remains elusive. If cleared, 3 portions of the task tin beryllium completed successful 1 go,” said an authoritative source. 

The last conception of the decades-old bypass task is simply a span that is coming up crossed what is remaining of the Rajakilpakkam lake. Work to conception the ₹208.31 crore installation began recently. Among the structures that are being demolished see a swimming pool, an overhead vessel and its centrifugal room, an bureau of the section ward subordinate and a ration shop.

“A full of 122 structures travel successful our way. We person removed each but 22 houses that person been illegally constructed connected the bed. Though the Land Acquisition Act has nary provisions for encroachers, arsenic a peculiar lawsuit the authorities agreed to supply them with alternate accomodation, which we person arranged done the Urban Habitat Board. However, the houses are yet to beryllium allotted to the beneficiaries arsenic a full of ₹6.24 crore has to beryllium paid to the board,” said different source. 

The 23-metre-wide span volition person 70 piers and the longer limb landing adjacent Madambakkam junction volition beryllium 1442.692 m. The 1 adjacent the Rajakilpakkam junction volition beryllium 943.406 m long. It volition instrumentality 18 months to beryllium completed.

IT assemblage worker Vidya Sridhar, who stays adjacent Vandalur, said the bypass would travel arsenic a boon to galore moving connected OMR and Velachery. “The caller authorities should instrumentality steps to implicit the work,” she said.