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Former Left Democratic Front (LDF) Minister T.U. Kuruvilla has urged the Kerala authorities to “explain to the public” the reasons down the hold successful constructing the projected Chelad sports complex.
Addressing a property league successful Kochi connected Wednesday (November 5, 2025), Mr. Kuruvilla said it was during his tenure arsenic Public Works Minister successful the 2006 LDF authorities that the plan for the projected stadium was prepared and ₹5.65 crore was allocated for archetypal signifier of construction. In fact, works connected the compound partition and aboveground levelling had already begun.
In the 2nd phase, ₹3 crore was allocated for the 400-m synthetic track, and different ₹4.43 crore for related infrastructure during successive LDF and UDF governments. Yet, Mr. Kuruvilla alleged, the task has made hardly immoderate advancement since.
He stated that the stadium could person been “completed agelong agone if adjacent little than fractional of the ₹70 crore reportedly being spent connected renovating the Kaloor planetary stadium had been invested successful the projected project.”
According to earlier estimates, the Chelad stadium could person been completed with an concern of astir ₹24 crore.
He expressed disappointment that the authorities has not taken immoderate inaugural to implicit the Chelad stadium, contempt the determination offering much favourable conditions than a metro metropolis specified arsenic Kochi.
The operation has remained stalled for implicit a decade, and the authorities has shown small involvement successful the task contempt increasing request from assorted quarters, said Mr. Kuruvilla.
