Even as the widening and extension of the Thammanam-Pullepady Road got a shot in the arm with the State government issuing a notification a fortnight ago, transferring the corridor from the Kochi Corporation to the Public Works department (PWD), a whole lot of procedures ought to be completed for the land acquisition process and to hand over the acquired land to the Kerala Road Fund Board (KRFB), the agency that will subsequently take up the road construction work, it is learnt.
The Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB) had sanctioned ₹93.89 crore of the around ₹250 crore that is estimated, to acquire the requisite land to widen the road into a four-lane corridor. “Still, a whole lot of procedural and other formalities ought to be overcome. Financial sanction is next in line, following which a tender ought to be called to lay boundary stones on the 3.68-km alignment that begins from Chakkaraparambu on NH Bypass and ends at Padma Junction on M.G. Road,” sources said.
This will be followed by the KRFB forwarding of a requisition letter to the District Collector to commence the land acquisition process. He could appoint the KIIFB tahsildar or Kochi Corporation tahsildar to again survey the requisite land. The social impact assessment (SIA) study by the Revenue department will follow suit. The process could take two months. A mandatory notification followed by the PWD (Buildings wing) or the KRFB estimating the value of buildings that ought to be fully or partly demolished should be done, it is learnt.
