Metro: Land survey to Resume on Friday

The land survey for the Kochi Metro Rail by the Public Works Department on Vyttila-Petta road will  resume on Friday. The decision was taken in a meeting convened by District Collector P I Sheik Pareeth on Wednesday.

The work was stuck owing to the protest by the residents of the nearby areas. In the meeting, the residents of the area assured the district administration that they would not hinder the survey. The Collector said that the survey will be conducted in the route except in three disputed plots.

“A joint inspection will be conducted under the Collector before surveying the three disputed plots, Ranjini eye hospital, KSEB substation, Chambakkara St George School,” he said.

Contrary to the PWD suggestion to widen the Vyttila-Petta road to 30 metres for the project, the officials had to stick to 26 metres following a protest from the residents.

Pareeth said that a rehabilitation package for the evictees will soon be charted out.  “Plans are on to rehabilitate them under the span of the bridge which will be constructed across the Chamabakkara canal,” he said.