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With the Kerala High Court approving an affidavit by the Chief Secretary to resume the roadworthy widening works of the Neryamangalam-Valara agelong of the Kochi-Dhanushkodi National Highway, the National Highway Protection Council (NHPC) has demanded that the enactment beryllium restarted astatine the earliest.
In July this year, the High Court had issued an bid restricting the road-widening works and histrion felling connected the 14.5-km Neriamangalam-Valara-Adimaly agelong of the Kochi-Dhanushkodi National Highway pursuing a petition filed by Idukki-based environmentalist M.N. Jayachandran.
The High Court connected Friday directed the National Highway Authority of India to manus implicit the details regarding the works connected Neryamangalam-Valara agelong to the Chief Secretary, said theNHPC activists. “After collecting the details, the authorities should contented directives to resume the road-widening works,” said NHPC wide convener Rasak Chooravelil.
“If the authorities fails to instrumentality action, the NHPC volition behaviour a bid of protests,” said Mr. Chooravelil.
Confirming the High Court’s support of the Chief Secretary’s affidavit, Water Resources Minister Roshy Augustine said the tribunal had directed him to instrumentality inaugural to resume the works. “The tribunal besides asked him to verify the details of the onshore adjacent to the road and marque a last decision.”
The disruption of the road-widening works connected the agelong had emerged arsenic a large governmental contented successful the district. The NHPC and different organisations had staged protests, demanding to resume the road-widening works.
