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Congress person and Kozhikode MP M.K. Raghavan has criticised the State authorities for its handling of the projected flyover operation astatine the Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) - Panathuthazham roadworthy junction connected the National Highway adjacent Haritha Nagar colony successful Kozhikode city.
His remarks person travel amid the increasing nationalist inconvenience pursuing the closure of the Panathuthazham road, with the flyover task inactive successful limbo owed to delayed onshore acquisition procedures.
While welcoming the Public Works section (PWD) Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas’s caller gathering with the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari helium was captious of the State government’s anterior inaction. ”The government’s main work was to implicit the onshore acquisition formalities and taxable a elaborate proposal. Meeting the Union Minister is welcome, but they should person approached the Centre with wide task documents, not conscionable for discussions,” Mr. Raghavan said successful a connection present connected Thursday (October 9, 2025).
Mr. Raghavan besides pointed retired that the contented was not caller to the Centre, arsenic helium had personally raised the request for the Panathuthazham flyover arsenic portion of a wider postulation solution bundle with the National Highway Authority and the Union Transport Minister backmost successful 2022.
At that time, the Central authorities had intelligibly instructed that a elaborate connection beryllium submitted via the State authorities lone aft onshore acquisition was complete. Despite repeated reminders to the PWD to taxable the proposal, Mr. Raghavan said nary enactment was taken, and the task was further delayed adjacent aft the Minister forwarded the applicable record to the Chief Engineer.
“The task remains stalled contiguous due to the fact that the onshore acquisition process was ne'er adjacent started,” Mr. Raghavan alleged. He added that the government’s involution now, aft the public’s postulation travel has already been disrupted, could lone beryllium described arsenic a nonaccomplishment to enactment until the past minute.
Mr. Raghavan did not mince words regarding the consequences of the delay. “The authorities failed to transportation retired its duty. Now, with the Panathuthazham roadworthy closed, the wide nationalist volition person to endure until the onshore acquisition is finished and the enactment connected the attack roadworthy and the flyover is yet completed.”
The MP pointed to the Union Minister’s reply successful Parliament, on with accompanying documents, arsenic definitive impervious of the State government’s negligence successful the matter.
