The ₹1,500-crore Integrated Urban Regeneration and Water Transport System project to widen, clean and develop six once-navigable canals in the city has got a shot in the arm with the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change approving the project. Kochi Metro Rail Limited, which would implement the project, had received the ‘consent to establish’ from the Pollution Control …
Continuing to lock horns over the CAG report on KIIFB, Finance minister Thomas Isaac on Tuesday claimed a political conspiracy had been hatched to choke Kerala’s development projects, as the Congress and BJP demanded his resignation for violating norms by making public the contents before it was tabled in the assembly. Isaac, who had earlier stated that it was a …
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