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Nod for new road from Cherthala to Arookkutty

Staff Reporter

Work to begin in a week: Vakkom

ALAPPUZHA: The Government will take immediate steps to begin the construction of Cherthala-Arookkutty Road in the district, Finance Minister Vakkom Purushothaman has said.

Inaugurating the mini-civil station building at Cherthala on Thursday evening, Mr. Purushothaman said the Government had already given administrative sanction for the road project, which is estimated to cost Rs.10 crores. The Minister said the work would begin in a week.

Minister for Public Works M.K. Muneer, who handed over the keys of the newly constructed building to Alappuzha Collector K.R. Muraleedharan, said the Government was implementing projects estimated to cost Rs.20 crores in Cherthala Assembly constituency. The former chief minister A.K. Antony, M.P., who presided over the function, said though the constituency had lost Rs.25 lakhs from the MLA's development fund when he resigned as MLA from the Assembly, he was implementing projects estimated at Rs. 2 crores from the development fund of MPs in Cherthala.

Mr. Antony said the people of Cherthala constituency would be able to get drinking water from the Japan-aided drinking water project being implemented there in three months. Revenue Minister K.M. Mani also spoke at the function.

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