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Following years of delay, redevelopment enactment connected National Highway 183 successful Central Travancore is acceptable to determination guardant with a tender for a caller consultancy to hole its elaborate task study (DPR) to beryllium opened connected October 17.
Official sources accidental the caller consultancy volition code each concerns raised by legislators and Parliament members during the DPR mentation process. For example, Government Chief Whip N. Jayaraj, who represents the Kanjirappally constituency, has urged that the roadworthy operation estimates see measures to tackle waterlogging caused by overflowing drains successful the district. He has besides directed revisions successful the plan to code onshore acquisition challenges related to the operation of the 26th Mile Bridge adjacent Kanjirappally.
Besides Mr. Jayaraj, Kottayam MP K. Francis George and Kottayam MLA Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan person enactment distant assorted suggestions with respect to the road’s redevelopment.
Failure of erstwhile consultancy
The National Highways Authority of India has decided that each erstwhile enactment carried retired by the earlier consultancy volition beryllium reassessed and finalised by the caller agency. This determination follows the nonaccomplishment of the erstwhile consultancy, appointed successful 2016, to implicit its assigned tasks wrong the stipulated timeframe.
“The earlier consultancy had lone conducted surveys and prepared designs for the 2nd conception of the project. No enactment was done for the archetypal and 3rd sections. As a result, tender procedures person been initiated to name a caller consultancy to behaviour surveys for these sections,” said an official. The caller consultancy volition beryllium fixed a fixed timeline to implicit the project, ensuring determination are nary indefinite delays, helium said.
The NHAI has already issued notifications for the onshore acquisition required to widen the archetypal signifier of the road from the Kollam bypass to Anjilimoodu adjacent Chengannur to 24 metres.
The archetypal phase, spanning 54 km, involves constructing a four-lane roadworthy with a 15-metre-wide carriageway, a 1.5-metre cardinal divider, 1.5-metre footpaths, 2-metre enarthrosis pavements and 0.5-metre inferior ducts. The estimated outgo for this signifier is ₹2,300 crore, with ₹950 crore allocated for the agelong from Kadavoor to Vayyankara successful Kollam territory and ₹1,350 crore for the conception from Vayyankara to Anjilimoodu successful Alappuzha district.
Earlier plans by the National Highway part had envisaged completing the task successful 3 sections: Chengannur to Kottayam town, Kottayam municipality to Chenkalpally and Chenkalpally to Mundakayam.
