THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board has given sanction for the economic triangle linking Vizhinjam, Kollam and Punalur. The initiative is aimed at creating an industrial corridor that would stimulate the state’s economic growth, said Finance Minister KN Balagopal. The minister was briefing the press after the 51st board meeting of the KIIFB chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. …
A project that was mulled a year ago to widen and redevelop 10 bottlenecked junctions in Kochi and its immediate suburbs has run into rough weather, thanks to non-allocation of funds. “With the State government not allotting funds even for doing the topographic survey, the project that would have ensured faster and streamlined movement of vehicles through these junctions that …
A meeting convened by the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board on Wednesday decided to enhance the outlay for the Integrated Urban Regeneration and Water Transport System from ₹1,528.2 crore to ₹3,853.4 crore. Abraham and Kochi Metro Rail Limited managing director Lokanath Behera, according to a communication issued by the Mayor. Besides the rejuvenation of six once-navigable canals that are now …
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 …
Caught in a tight spot, the Kerala CPI’s strategy now is ‘attack is the best defence’ and after hitting out at the national probe agencies, it is the CAG that came under its ire on Sunday. Since July 5, when the gold smuggling scam surfaced and also the impropriety in Vijayan’s pet project-Life Mission surfaced, the NIA, Customs, CBI, ED …
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