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 …
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 …
