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ICTT project: rail, road work on course

Staff Reporter

FACT, NHAI to sort out dispute over land acquisition

KOCHI: Rail and road connectivity for the Vallarpadam International Container Transhipment Terminal (ICTT) will be commissioned by April 1, 2009, as per the original schedule. This was decided at a meeting held in Delhi recently.

The Union Shipping Secretary presided over the meeting. It evaluated the progress of the work on the Vallarpadam project and decided to expedite it, Ernakulam District Collector A.P.M. Mohammed Hanish, who participated in the meeting, said. The Cochin Port Trust Chairman and representatives of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) attended the meet.

An understanding was reached to hold a discussion between the NHAI chairman and the Union Fertilizer Secretary to sort out the dispute between Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd. (FACT) and the NHAI over the acquisition of road on the premises of the former. The District Collector has been asked to submit a report to the Union Shipping Secretary within a week.

Initial valuation has been completed in four villages through which the rail line passes — Edappally North and South, Cheranalloor and Mulavukadu — and the draft declaration has been published.

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