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set to change: A view of the railway land on which the State Highways Department is expected to start work for the road overbridge project in Tambaram. TAMBARAM: The road overbridge project to replace the railway level-crossing in Tambaram (LC No. 30) was launched with an elaborate State function in May last year. The massive project, whose estimated cost is about Rs.45 crore, including a sizable share from Southern Railway, is crucial to improve connectivity in this most important southern suburb. And today, the project is witnessing progress at a snails’ pace as the Projects Wing of the State Highways Department is unable to go ahead with the work owing to various factors, most important being unavailability of land. At a recent joint meeting of officials of the State Highways Department and Southern Railway, Highways officials were informed that it might not be possible to hand over railway land permanently to them for building road overbridges at Pallavaram (LC No. 24), Tambaram Sanatorium (LC No. 29) and Tambaram (LC No. 30). But “Way Leave Facility” could be granted for building the bridge decks “in the overall interest of completing road overbridges.” Southern Railway initially demanded a huge sum for parting with 1.53 lakh square feet of its land to the Highways Department for the project. During an inspection some weeks ago, Highways Minister Vellakoil Saminathan told reporters that the issue was sorted out. And Southern Railway’s offer to accept land of equivalent value was a significant development, engineers of the Highways Department said. At the same time, they appealed to Southern Railway to permit them to start work on its land in East and West Tambaram. Engineers said other obstacles that came in the way of the project were delay in shifting some of the installations belonging to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board and the Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply. The delay in diverting traffic from Mudichur Road to GST Road through the interior roads of West Tambaram owing to poor road surfaces was a reason for the delay in starting preliminary works on that road, engineers said. In addition to these, the Highways Department needed to acquire about 45,000 square feet of ‘patta land’, nearly 20,000 square feet of land from Civil Lines of Indian Air Force and another 16,000 square feet land from other State government departments. If land acquisition procedures and shifting of installations of other government departments were completed, the bridge could be completed on time, engineers said. A senior engineer said the Highways Department was always at the receiving end for failing to stick to schedules, but real problems lay elsewhere. The engineer said that in the absence of a joint coordination committee, top brass of the TNEB, TWAD Board, MAWS Department and other agencies were unaware of their role in the project and their responsibility to speed up the project.
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