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State Higher Education Minister Roji M. John, who has been fixed complaint of Ernakulam district, said the United Democratic Front (UDF) authorities would wage peculiar attraction to the district’s wide development. He said the authorities would place the district’s improvement requirements and expedite cardinal infrastructure projects.
Addressing the media astatine the Ernakulam Press Club, the Minister said the hold of the Kochi Metro would beryllium among the government’s apical priorities.
Work connected Kochi metro Phase II, connecting JLN Stadium and Infopark, is presently nether way, and steps person begun to hole the elaborate task study (DPR) for Phase III, which proposes extending the corridor to Angamaly. The Minister said the authorities hoped to implicit the task during its existent term.
The Minister blamed the erstwhile Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities for failing to realise the projected GIFT City task successful Kochi, which has remained nether treatment for much than six years. The Minister said the LDF authorities could not get adjacent a cent of onshore for the task contempt having the support of the Union government.
“The UDF authorities would initiate caller steps to unafraid the indispensable approvals from the Centre and determination the task forward. GIFT City could go a large operator of economical maturation and concern successful the district, conscionable similar Infopark,” helium said.
The Minister besides highlighted the long-pending Angamaly-Kundannoor Bypass project. Describing it arsenic 1 of the astir important projects for providing a lasting solution to the district’s postulation congestion, helium said the authorities had already initiated preliminary procedures to instrumentality the task forward. He added that the anticipation of processing the projected bypass into an eight-lane roadworthy was being explored.
