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The Public Works section (PWD) has appointed nodal officers to coordinate archetypal activities for the projected Poozhithode-Padinjarathara roadworthy connecting Kozhikode and Wayanad districts.
A high-level gathering chaired by Minister for Public Works P.A. Mohamed Riyas connected Monday (September 29) appointed Hashim V.K., Executive Director (Roads Division), PWD, Kozhikode, arsenic the nodal serviceman to coordinate the works. Meanwhile, PWD Additional Secretary Shibu A. has been appointed arsenic the nodal serviceman to coordinate the activities with different departments.
The Minister has directed officials to implicit the alignment of the roadworthy by October 15 and to hole the archetypal elaborate task study (DPR) by October 25. The last DPR volition beryllium prepared aft due inspections later. The Minister said the task was a wide anticipated 1 for the radical of Kozhikode and Wayanad districts, and that the section would marque each efforts to realise it.
The Poozhithode-Padinjarathara roadworthy betwixt Poozhithode successful Chakkittapara grama panchayat of Kozhikode and Padinjarathara successful Wayanad has been deemed the astir cost-effective, astir environment-friendly, and the easiest alternate to the Wayanad Ghat Road arsenic a signifier of connectivity betwixt the 2 districts.
While the archetypal works of the 27.225 km roadworthy started successful 1994, and 70% of the enactment has been completed, the task had to beryllium enactment disconnected owed to absorption from the Forest department. As galore arsenic 183 families, 150 successful Wayanad and 33 successful Kozhikode district, had fixed up onshore for the task mode backmost successful 1994. The 2-km agelong from Poozhithode to Panakkamkadavu, a 5-km mud roadworthy from Panakkamkadavu to Karinkanni successful the Kozhikode side, and the Padinjarathara-Kappikkalam agelong connected the Wayanad broadside unneurotic represent 14.285 kilometres, frankincense leaving 12.94 km much to beryllium completed. This consists of 9 km of wood onshore implicit which the Forest section raised an objection successful 1995, citing that it was a reserved wood and could not beryllium allowed to beryllium destroyed.
It was successful 2024 that the State authorities sanctioned ₹1.5 crore for a feasibility study, which was precocious completed.
The results of the survey were uploaded to the Parivesh (Pro-Active and Responsive Facilitation by Interactive, Virtuous, and Environmental Single Window Hub) of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Further enactment connected the roadworthy task depends connected the clearance of the Ministry.
