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All plans, no action

There is no dearth of transport and road-development projects for Kochi. The sad fact is that they remain only on paper. The metro-rail, which has been welcomed with gusto by metros like Bangalore and Chennai and is on the pipeline in smaller cities across India, might take years to bear fruit in Kochi. Reports say that lobbies are working overtime to thwart the project. They include some business establishments, who fear losing their land (and a small portion of their bui ldings) for constructing stations and other amenities for the project. The Skycity project, conceived to link Kundanoor and Subhash Bose Road (which runs parallel to S.A. Road) through the backwaters is another project, mooted years ago. Road, bridge and flyover projects of the Corporation, Greater Cochin Development Authority and the Roads and Bridges Development Corporation too have not seen the light of the day, years after they were proposed.

John L. Paul

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