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The ₹57-lakh task to instal a truss astatine P&T flat analyzable successful Mundamveli built by the Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA) has failed to pull bidders adjacent aft re-tendering.
The task is funded nether the improvement money of section MLA K.J. Maxy. The hold has near 77 families successful despair arsenic astir each apartments leaked heavy during an aggravated ablution earlier this week. Barely a period aft residents were shifted to the analyzable from the erstwhile P&T Colony successful January 2024, leaks began appearing during the archetypal rains successful February and person since dispersed to astir each unit.
The truss installation was cleared aft a three-member panel, including an adept from IIT Madras, conducted a structural stableness investigation past August. The State authorities had approved consultancy to IIT Madras to observe structural and plan flaws and urge solutions aft prolonged delays.
However, engineering sources successful the Kochi Corporation present assertion that the GCDA has not yet issued a structural stableness certificate, without which enactment cannot statesman adjacent if tendered. The GCDA, meanwhile, dismissed this, countering that the tender was floated lone aft the certificate was issued.
Residents accidental the problems present widen beyond leaking roofs. “Of the six h2o tanks with a capableness of 25,000 litres oregon much successful the 2 blocks, 2 person started leaking heavily, portion the different 4 person developed scratches, leaving america virtually nether the shadiness of a h2o bomb. Small cracks successful foundational pillars, initially dismissed arsenic aerial gaps, person widened. If the IIT Madras study raises structural stableness concerns, past the buildings should beryllium demolished and reconstructed to guarantee our safety,” said Abhilash P. Parameswaran, president of the P&T Apartment Owners Association.
Meanwhile, different works, including the operation of the compound partition and landscaping, which were suspended pursuing the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct up of the section assemblage polls, are yet to resume. In December, the relation took retired a protestation march to the contractor’s residence aft the stalled works caused septic vessel blockages, disrupting bath use.
At a gathering convened by District Collector G. Priyanka connected Thursday (February 5, 2026), the contractor said helium would not resume enactment without support from Mr. Maxi, since the task is funded done the MLA’s improvement fund. Mundamveli part councillor K.J. Prakashan said the protestation had distressed the contractor, and that the residents should person approached officials instead.
Boycotting each governmental parties, the relation fielded Mr. Parameswaran arsenic a campaigner from Mundamveli. Residents judge this had antagonised Mr. Maxi, who had since declined to be meetings addressing problems successful the flat complex. Mr. Maxi could not beryllium reached for comment.
