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Smart Mission seeking to complete road works by October
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‘Delay encountered in relocating posts, underground utilities’
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‘Delay encountered in relocating posts, underground utilities’
All pending works of Cochin Smart Mission Limited (CSML) in the city will be completed by October, ahead of the December deadline. They include completion of pending works on smart roads and other roads that are being renovated, sources in the agency said.
They attributed delay in completing many works to the pandemic, and delay encountered in relocating posts and underground utilities. Every effort is being made to speed up works, despite such hurdles. “For example, ₹1.20 crore was spent from our funds to lay new telephone cables in the place of old ones that had to be relocated for our works, when the telecom firm cited funds paucity. Similarly, implementable suggestions of councillors and other people’s representatives are taken into account while
Protest against cycle track
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The demarcation of space on the busy Park Avenue Road for a cycle track does not augur well for commuters on the corridor, the Ernakulam Vikasana Samithi has said.
K.S. Dileep Kumar, chairman of the samithi, said that over 90% of the land on either side of the stretch was owned by government agencies. A dedicated cycle track could have been created by acquiring a portion of the land. The ongoing work by CSML to carve out a cycle track was aimed at “hoodwinking” members of a Central team which would arrive in the city later this month, he said.