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GCDA projects await Government approval

Staff Reporter

Survey of first phase of ring road over

KOCHI: Projects submitted by the Greater Cochin Development Authority are expected to be approved by the Government in a couple of days.

With no one at the helm, the authority forwarded projects to the Department of Local Administration for approval. The authority is yet to have a chairman since Antony Isaac put in his papers after the Government changed. The general and executive councils are yet to be reconstituted.

The authority, in the meantime, completed the survey for the first phase of the ring road. It is awaiting Government approval for the proposed alignment so as to proceed with the project.

The original proposal was to construct 65-km-road starting from Marine Drive and connecting Vaduthala, Cheranalloor, Kothad, Chennur, Varappuzha, Malikapeedika, Alangad, Chengamanad, Athani, Puthencruz, Udayamperoor and joining the National Highway 47 at Panangad. Out of this, the first phase covering 9.5 km is being taken up.

After getting the alignment approved by the Government, the authority will have to get nod from the Union Ministry of Forest and Environment for reclamation of land for completing the road.

At many parts, the road will pass through thickly populated areas like Vaduthala, hence land acquisition will be a problem.

The authority, on the other hand, is proposing reclamation of land.

The authority had done hydrographic survey of regions that have water frontage. Nearly three kilometres of the road passes along water bodies. The authority will also have to initiate discussions with the Cochin Port Trust regarding the reclamation drive.

The Goshree Island Development Authority has almost completed the road from Marine Drive to Chathiath. The proposed ring project extends this road up to NH-17. This, when completed, is expected to become a major exit corridor to bypass the busy city traffic.

The authority also proposed the ring road as a solution to the increase in traffic with the work beginning on the International Container Transhipment Terminal at Vallarpadom.

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