Kottarakara bypass: land acquisition enters final phase

The long-awaited Kottarakara bypass task has reached a decisive milestone arsenic onshore acquisition procedures participate their last stages. Authorities person announced that the determination of compensation amounts for the required onshore volition beryllium completed wrong the adjacent 2 days. To code immoderate grievances, a ceremonial proceeding for landholders who submitted objections is scheduled for Monday astatine the Kottarakara Civil Station. Concerned authorities departments person already submitted valuation reports regarding buildings, trees, and cultivation crops connected the identified plots, which volition service arsenic the ground for calculating idiosyncratic compensation packages.

Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal said that the task is successfully crossing different captious hurdle, promising an extremity to the decades-long postulation woes of Kottarakara residents and the thousands of commuters passing done the town. The onshore acquisition process follows the Section 11(1) notification issued connected January 13, covering astir 6.2432 hectares (15.5 acres) crossed Kottarakara and Mylam villages. The Minister confirmed that compensation volition beryllium distributed successful reaches, with the archetypal batch of landowners expected to person payments by the past week of February.

Designed successful 2022, the bypass is envisioned arsenic a modern four-lane agelong spanning a full of 2.8 kms The task features a unsocial architectural plan consisting of 1.6 km of roadworthy and a important 1.2-km-long flyover. The roadworthy volition person a width of 23 meters, portion the flyover conception volition beryllium 20 meters wide. Managed by the Kerala Road Fund Board (KRFB), the bypass volition originate adjacent the driving investigating crushed astatine little Karickam connected the MC Road, transverse the National Highway astatine Pulamon via an overpass, and reconnect with the MC Road adjacent the Mylam colony bureau via Govindamangalam Road.

The fiscal model for the task was solidified during KIIFB’s 45th wide assemblage gathering successful February 2023, which approved ₹110.35 crore specifically for onshore acquisition. “All compensation procedures volition beryllium completed successful a time-bound mode by March 2026, mounting the signifier for the bypass to beryllium afloat operational by 2027,” said Mr. Balagopal.