KOCHI: The renovated waiting shed at the boat jetty in Vaduthala, which is the sole point of contact for ferries transporting passengers to and from Korumkotta, has come as a saving grace for the 89 families on the remote island. We held discussions with Cheranallur panchayat and decided to allocate `6 lakh from the corporation’s plan fund to renovate the …
The Roads and Bridges Development Corporation would award tenders this year for constructing the long-overdue overbridges at Atlantis and Vaduthala in the city. The overbridge at Atlantis would open up a new bridge parallel to the bottlenecked two-lane overbridge at Ernakulam South, which is flanked by four-lane roads on either side. Once ready, the Atlantis bridge would provide a seamless …
Some years ago, Flevin Pannkal, then a 30-year-old, was waved down by the police on Container Terminal Road in Kochi city. Fifteen years after 316 families lost their land and homes across seven villages and a rehabilitation package, known as the Moolampilly package, was notified, that sense of injustice has only grown. She used to say that she had met …
Kochi: Students of five schools in Kochi city have come tog-ether to form a unique Pupil Leader Action Network under the leadership of Global Pub-lic School, Thiruvaniyoor, here, to harness and nurture leaders and make them think of leadership beyond school walls, to reach out to the society. The schools under PLAN are Rajagiri Christhu Jayanthi Public School, Chinmaya Vidyalaya …