Further delays for Junction Bridge project.
Aristo Roundtana or 'Trichy Junction Road Overbridge' project is likely
to face further delay due to inter-departmental land acquisition issue
which continues to be a bone of contention between the highways
department and the railways.
Rajeev Ranjan, secretary to the state government for highways and minor ports department who was in the city to inspect several state highways projects, called an interdepartmental meeting to resolve the issues hampering Aristo Roundtana project.
Meanwhile, representatives from the railways and defense skipped the meeting, resulting in prolonging of the uncertainty.
The secretary had called for the meeting to discuss about road overbridge project in the evening after meeting with revenue officials in the afternoon. The representatives from railways left before the meeting citing inordinate delay in starting the meeting.
"The
meeting with representatives from railways department was scheduled for
the evening. But the members left without attending it as the meeting
with revenue officials called by Rajeev Ranjan along with collector KS
Palanisamy prolonged," said an official from the highways department.
Since the meeting was called in a very short notice, representatives
from the defense whose land also has to be acquired for the project
could not make it for the meeting.
The road overbridge project, expected to de-congest traffic to considerable extent, is going to be executed in two phases. The first phase of the project commenced in February 2014 at an outlay of Rs 44.28 crore which was later revised to Rs 52.52 crore. The current estimated cost of the two phases stood at Rs 81.40 crore.
The compensation of Rs 26 Crore demanded by the railways department for the 5000 sq mt of its land doesn't seem to have gone well with the state highways department who wants a part of it to lay a service road.
Having acquired 4.7-acre land of Tamil Nadu Special Police Battalion free of cost for the same project, the highways department is not ready to compensate railways with the said amount as railways would be the major beneficiary of service road.
"About 80% of the traffic in service road would be received from Zonal Railway Training Institute and railway club, the compensation doesn't seem to be legitimate on part of the railways," said a senior official from the railways. It is noteworthy that similar land dispute during the past among the two departments forced the highways department to skip the construction of a subway near G Corner. Residents of Ponmalai are at the receiving ends now who were forced to take a detour of over 5km in the absence of the subway.
Rajeev Ranjan, secretary to the state government for highways and minor ports department who was in the city to inspect several state highways projects, called an interdepartmental meeting to resolve the issues hampering Aristo Roundtana project.
Meanwhile, representatives from the railways and defense skipped the meeting, resulting in prolonging of the uncertainty.
The secretary had called for the meeting to discuss about road overbridge project in the evening after meeting with revenue officials in the afternoon. The representatives from railways left before the meeting citing inordinate delay in starting the meeting.
"The
meeting with representatives from railways department was scheduled for
the evening. But the members left without attending it as the meeting
with revenue officials called by Rajeev Ranjan along with collector KS
Palanisamy prolonged," said an official from the highways department.
Since the meeting was called in a very short notice, representatives
from the defense whose land also has to be acquired for the project
could not make it for the meeting. The road overbridge project, expected to de-congest traffic to considerable extent, is going to be executed in two phases. The first phase of the project commenced in February 2014 at an outlay of Rs 44.28 crore which was later revised to Rs 52.52 crore. The current estimated cost of the two phases stood at Rs 81.40 crore.
The compensation of Rs 26 Crore demanded by the railways department for the 5000 sq mt of its land doesn't seem to have gone well with the state highways department who wants a part of it to lay a service road.
Having acquired 4.7-acre land of Tamil Nadu Special Police Battalion free of cost for the same project, the highways department is not ready to compensate railways with the said amount as railways would be the major beneficiary of service road.
"About 80% of the traffic in service road would be received from Zonal Railway Training Institute and railway club, the compensation doesn't seem to be legitimate on part of the railways," said a senior official from the railways. It is noteworthy that similar land dispute during the past among the two departments forced the highways department to skip the construction of a subway near G Corner. Residents of Ponmalai are at the receiving ends now who were forced to take a detour of over 5km in the absence of the subway.
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