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Articles for Kakkanad

Demand to build elevated road to decongest stretches leading to Kakkanad
4 months, 1 week ago

Demand to build elevated road to decongest stretches leading to Kakkanad

The Hindu  

With worsening traffic congestion on roads to Kakkanad and Collectorate Junction, there is increasing pressure to complete the widening of Seaport-Airport Road to a four- or six-lane corridor and to build an elevated road on the Olimugal-Collectorate Junction-Chitrapuzha stretch as a long-term measure to streamline traffic flow in and around Kakkanad. In the past month, traffic snarls on roads leading …

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KMRL, district administration face flak for traffic snarls on Civil Line Road due to metro rail works
5 months ago

KMRL, district administration face flak for traffic snarls on Civil Line Road due to metro rail works

The Hindu  

Motorists, traders, residents associations, and people’s representatives are on the warpath yet again with Kochi Metro Rail Limited and the district administration for not redeveloping alternative diversion roads, a month since works began on the metro’s 11.20-km Kakkanad extension. Contrary to expectations that alternative roads would be redeveloped and junctions widened before erecting barricades, the metro agency had placed barricades …

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Construction of viaduct for Kochi metro’s Kakkanad extension begins
6 months, 1 week ago

Construction of viaduct for Kochi metro’s Kakkanad extension begins

The Hindu  

The construction of the Kochi metro’s 11.20-km viaduct for its Kakkanad extension began on Wednesday. The test piling as part of the viaduct construction was held at Kunnumpuram, Kakkanad, around 10.30 a.m. Kochi Metro Rail Limited managing director Loknath Behera, project director M.P. The stations have been envisaged at Palarivattom, Alinchuvadu, Chembumukku, Vazhakkala, Padamugal, Collectorate Junction, Cochin Special Economic Zone, …

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AFCONS Infrastructure to construct Kochi metro’s Kakkanad extension viaduct
6 months, 2 weeks ago

AFCONS Infrastructure to construct Kochi metro’s Kakkanad extension viaduct

The Hindu  

The contract to construct the Kochi metro’s 11.20-km viaduct for its Kakkanad extension has been awarded to AFCONS Infrastructure. The firm that quoted ₹1,141 crore for the work had emerged the lowest bidder and the sole technically qualified bidder as tenders were opened in March to construct the metro’s second-phase extension that would take off from JLN Stadium and end …

Metro Kochi Kakkanad Palarivattom Viaduct
Kerala rains: Cloudburst-like heavy rainfall pummels Kochi
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Kerala rains: Cloudburst-like heavy rainfall pummels Kochi

The Hindu  

Normal life was brought to its knees by a spell of heavy, incessant rain akin to a cloudburst accompanied by strong winds that lasted a couple of hours in Kochi in Ernakulam district of Kerala on May 28 morning. The episode left roads and houses in many pockets inundated, damaged three houses partially and left motorists stranded across Kochi city …

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New facility to boost efforts by regional analytical lab in Kakkanad to secure NABL accreditation
10 months, 2 weeks ago

New facility to boost efforts by regional analytical lab in Kakkanad to secure NABL accreditation

The Hindu  

The inauguration of microbiology food testing at the Regional Analytical Laboratory in Kakkanad by the Prime Minister on February 25 is expected to enhance efforts by the unit to gain accreditation from the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories. Though the lab in Kakkanad had NABL accreditation for chemical analysis, it lacked accreditation from the Central agency for …

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Kerala: Kochi Water Metro begins commercial operation
1 year, 8 months ago

Kerala: Kochi Water Metro begins commercial operation

Deccan Chronicle  

Kochi: The Kochi Water Metro, which was formally inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, began its commercial operation on Wednesday. Loknath Behera, MD of Kochi Water Metro Limited took the first boat service with Vypin islanders from the Vypin water metro terminal. The Director of Finance, Kochi Metro Rail Limited Annapoorani S said that initially 76 kilometres will be covered …

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Kakkanad extension of metro to cost ₹1,957 crore
3 years, 11 months ago

Kakkanad extension of metro to cost ₹1,957 crore

The Hindu  

The 2-km extension of the Kochi metro from Pettah to Thripunithura will be completed in 2021-22, Finance Minister Dr. Thomas Isaac said in his budget speech. The construction of the 11-km extension of the metro, from Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium up to the IT hub in Kakkanad too will be carried out at an expenditure of ₹1,957 crore, he added. …

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