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After frustrated with postulation congestion mundane on the Thiruvananthapuram Highway betwixt Vannarpet and Palayamkottai, residents present desperately look up to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin for sanctioning a caller 2 km-long roadworthy to link Nehru Auditorium and South Bypass Road via the unused fields arsenic it volition supply everlasting solution to decades-old problem.
Since each the vehicles going to Papanasam, Tenkasi and Kerala, each successful the westbound and Sankarankovil and Rajapalayamm, some successful the northwest, from Thoothukudi and Kanniyakumari districts person to transverse Palayamkottai and Tirunelveli, it origin superior postulation congestion successful the city, particularly successful the cramped Tirunelveli Town areas.
When Mr. Stalin visited Tirunelveli successful September 2022, aft discussing with past District Collector V. Vishnu earlier the commencement of the function, helium announced successful the relation that the 32-km-long West Bypass Road to link Konganthaanpaarai intersection connected the southbound of Palayamkottai and Thaazhaiyooththu successful the northbound via Tharuvai connected Palayamkottai – Papanasam Highway, Suththamalli connected Tirunelveli – Cheranmahadevi Road, Abhishekapatti connected Tirunelveli – Tenkasi Highway and Rastha connected Tirunelveli – Sankarankovil Highway would beryllium laid astatine the outgo of ₹370 crore. This much-awaited bypass road, erstwhile opened for traffic, volition springiness everlasting solution to the perennial postulation congestion wrong Palayamkottai and Tirunelveli arsenic the west-bound vehicles to Ambasmudram and Papanasam, Tenkasi and Kerala and northwest-bound vehicles to Sankarankovil and Rajapalayam request not participate these ‘twin towns’.
As Mr. Stalin himself sanctioned this bypass roadworthy during his sojourn to Tirunelveli, acquisition of onshore for the roadworthy was done astatine lightning gait and archetypal signifier of the roadworthy betwixt Konganthaanpaarai intersection and Suththamalli for 12 Km has astir been completed. And, enactment connected the 2nd signifier for 20 Km is to beryllium commenced aft 98% of onshore acquisition has been completed. Minister for Highways E.V. Velu inspected the westbound bypass roadworthy enactment connected Saturday.
“Hence, the Chief Minister, during his sojourn to Tirunelveli connected Sunday, should springiness the residents the ‘Christmas Gift’ by sanctioning the 2 km-long roadworthy with 100-feet-width to link Nehru Auditorium successful Palayamkottai and the South Bypass Road via the uncultivated fields. Since the existing constrictive 75-year-old Thiruvananthapuram Highway cannot grip the vehicles and postulation congestion has go inseparable portion of this agelong passim the day, the Chief Minister, who generously sanctioned the much-needed West Bypass Road, should acquisition this roadworthy also,” said Gunasingh Chelladurai of Bell Group of Companies.
According to the survey conducted 8 years agone by the Department of Highways and Police astatine Chellapandian postulation land astatine Vannarpet, much than 12,500 vehicles are crossing this engaged constituent each hr from eastbound to westbound and vice-versa portion this measurement is conscionable 4,500 successful the north-south oregon southbound - northbound direction. Hence, the Thiruvananthapuram Highway lodging starring commercialized establishments, 2 higher secondary schools, a schoolhouse for the intellectually challenged and CSI Cathedral, each receiving immense fig of students and the nationalist everyday, should beryllium supported with an further roadworthy to debar postulation snarls and consequent accidents. Moreover, the ambulances carrying the patients to Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital (TVMCH) oregon the starring backstage hospitals on the northbound and southbound bypass roads person to traverse this strangled stretch.
A bully fig of onshore owners, having their fields betwixt Nehru Auditorium and South Bypass Road person already donated their lands for laying the caller roadworthy considering the maturation of Palayamkottai. They person donated their lands successful the sanction of Tamil Nadu Governor for laying the road. And, a fewer much onshore owners adjacent submitted a petition to Tirunelveli Corporation connected November 29, 2022 expressing their willingness to donate their onshore for the road.
“However, the Corporation officials did not instrumentality immoderate further enactment to realise this imagination road. If it is sanctioned, it volition beryllium cleanable acquisition for full Tirunelveli,” said a doc moving with TVMCH.
