August 15 set as deadline to finish survey to amass land for Kochi Bypass

The survey for the much-delayed Kundannur-Angamaly NH 544 Bypass hall (Kochi Bypass) has bought a shot within the arm, with the Revenue division fixing August 15 because the deadline to finish the survey to amass an estimated 290 hectares for the hall that’s anticipated to significantly decongest Kochi and its instant suburbs.

Aimed at this, surveyors have been posted in every of the 18 villages by way of which the 44.70-km-long greenfield freeway will cross. The growth is being seen as a last-ditch effort to finish the survey course of, earlier than the one-year deadline for the three(A) notification expires on August 28. “The 3[D] notification should be printed earlier than this date to forestall expiry of the three[A] notification, for which the survey works should be accomplished by early August,” official sources mentioned.

Sources within the Revenue division mentioned surveyors, who had fanned throughout the 18 villages by way of which the alignment of the proposed Kochi Bypass would cross, are within the technique of consolidating particulars like survey numbers and the exact extent of plots that should be acquired. “They have been directed to consolidate the main points and to submit them by the primary week of August. It is hoped that extra personnel might be deputed at land acquisition places of work to finish the paperwork. The survey course of suffered delay as a result of insufficient variety of surveyors and delays in laying boundary stones on the alignment for the proposed bypass,” they mentioned.

The important 3(D) notification will make clear the sorts of land that might be acquired for the hall, buildings and vegetation like timber and crops on them, and their financial worth. For this, valuation stories submitted by half-a-dozen departments (just like the PWD-Buildings wing and Agriculture and Forest departments) could be taken under consideration, the sources mentioned.

Once constructed, the proposed six-lane greenfield hall that has been christened ‘Kochi Bypass’ and can hyperlink Netoor, positioned south of Kundannur Junction on the NH bypass with Karayamparambu positioned past Angamaly, is anticipated to decongest the ill-maintained Edappally–Aroor NH 66 bypass (owned by the National Highways Authority of India) and the Edappally–Angamaly NH 544 stretch. Traffic hold-ups have gotten acute as days cross by on the 2 largely four-lane stretches.

Hoping that the continuing survey could be accomplished by August, Deekshith Ok.S., convenor of the Thiruvankulam village committee of Kundannoor-Angamaly NH Bypass Action Council, mentioned all the land acquisition course of, together with fee of compensation to landowners and taking possession of their land, should ideally recover from by March 2026. “For this, the publishing of the opposite important notifications should comply with the three[D] notification.”

The office-bearers of the motion council met Union Minister George Kurian, Minister for Industries and Law P. Rajeeve, and the Land Revenue Commissioner to fast-track the venture, in order that ground-level development works can start on the earliest. The disputes relating to the fixing of various valuations for previous and new buildings should be settled, because the rehabilitation expense for each units of landowners could be the identical, he added.

Meanwhile, Maradu municipality, from whose jurisdiction (Netoor) the proposed greenfield NH hall will start, shaped an motion council on Tuesday (July 22), searching for honest compensation for folks from the area whose land and buildings could be acquired. “They should be compensated as per the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The NHAI should purchase all the constructing, in situations the place homeowners say that they don’t want partly acquired buildings,” mentioned Antony Ashanparambil, chairman of the municipality.