Land acquisition for Mananchira-Vellimadukunnu road development before April.

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that the State government will take immediate steps for developing the Mananchira-Vellimadukunnu road in the city.

He announced this after receiving a mass petition submitted by the Mananchira- Vellimadukunnu action committee demanding that funds be allocated for acquiring the land for converting the road into a four-lane highway.

Mr. Chandy said that the Cabinet had already discussed the project of converting the 8.4-km. road into a four-lane highway. The land required for widening the road would be acquired before April 15, 2015. A sum of Rs.100 crore would be released in the supplementary Budget in February and the remaining amount, in the fresh Budget in March.

A State-level Empowered Committee, chaired by the Chief Secretary, would take a final decision on the recommendations of the district-level purchase committee on the land value. The District Collector was asked to speed up the process of acquiring government land as soon as possible.


THE HINDU