Thursday, 16 August 2012
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Planning commission
No food for poor Rs.25,000 cr USO fund to subsidize mobile telephone bills of poor Indians.
Planning commission spent Rs.35 lakh on 2 toilets who said Rs.28 per day mean are rich Indians.
Year 2012 earn monthly USA $ 15 you are rich Indian citizen as per planning commission.
Last year they said if you are an Indian citizen and if you spend daily more than Rs.32 then you are not poor.
Do you think govt. of India should stop to spend money on Planning commission nad its officers?
NH 47 Bypass work: Tharoor meets Union Minister
NH 47 Bypass work: Tharoor meets Union Minister
Thiruvananthapuram, June 15, 2011 The Hindu
Shashi Tharoor, MP, on Tuesday met Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways C.P. Joshi to press for early completion of the National Highway (NH) 47 bypass from Kovalam to Kaliyikavila.
Shashi Tharoor, MP, on Tuesday met Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways C.P. Joshi to press for early completion of the National Highway (NH) 47 bypass from Kovalam to Kaliyikavila.
Mr. Tharoor stressed the need for completing the long-pending project. He said the project had been envisaged as far back in 1974 and that the people whose land was to be acquired for the project could not be made to wait any longer for the compensation. Mr. Joshi said the matter would be accorded top priority.
The proposal for a combined bypass for NH 47 starting from the entry point in the city at Kazhakuttam and rejoining it at the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border at Kaliyikavila had been taken up by the National Highway Authority of India many years ago and one part of the stretch, from Kazhakuttam to Kovalam Junction, was completed about 10 years ago. But the subsequent work on the Kovalam-Kaliyikavila stretch got bogged down due to various reasons.
An official pressnote quoting the MP said land acquisition was not a hurdle for the project as the survey work on the alignment had been completed and the people to be affected had only wanted the compensation to be awarded quickly.
The project, initially named the ‘Thiruvananthapuram- Neyyatinkara Combined Bypass' envisaged 4/6 laning of the 43 km stretch between Kazhakuttam and Kaliyikavila under the NHDP Phase-III package. The construction of the bypass from Kazhakuttam to Kovalam Junction, a length of 22.6 km, had been completed about 10 years back. The proposal involves construction of a new highway from the Kovalam Junction up to the Kerala border at Kaliyikavila. Land was acquired for the bypass alignment from Kovalam to Kottukal to a width of 45 m.
The remaining length of the alignment passes through eight villages, namely Venkulam, Kanjiramkulam, Puthenkada, Tirupuram, Puzhikunnu, Pottayilkada, Vaduvarakonam, and Ayira, and the survey of the alignment was completed almost 10 years back.
However, the actual acquisition proceedings (except for a short 5 km stretch from Kovalam Juntion to Vizhinjam village) had not been undertaken for this stretch.
Mr. Tharoor said the local population who incidentally had no objection to the acquisition were put to difficulty due to the delay in awarding compensation after the acquisition process ground to a halt. He told the Minister that it was essential from a humanitarian point of view to complete the process swiftly and enable them to relocate and get on with their lives.
Mr. Tharoor said there would be no hitch in taking up the widening of the 22.60 km Kazhakuttam- Kovalam stretch to a four-lane road since the land acquisition on both sides of the road had already been completed. The remaining stretch of the bypass up to the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border (Kaliyikavila) would require the acquisition of 70 hectares (175 acres) of land. An approximate amount of Rs.350 crore would be required to acquire land from Kottukal village to Kaliyikavila. The project will require construction of five underpasses and five overpasses at the junctions of crossroads with the main carriage way, along with major and minor bridges.
NH47 road block
Thrissur, Saturday, August 11, 2012: Natives blockaded national highway by the leadership of MLA MP Vincent at Vaniyampara demanding to renovate Thrissur-Palakkad national highway. At the inauguration MLA demanded the interference of chief minister in the matter.
He added, the agitation will continue till the government considers the natives’ demand. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy informed that prompt actions will be taken in the matter.
Land acquisition to be speeded up for NH 66
Kerala: Land acquisition to be speeded up for NH 66
June 6, 2012 By Cynthia Chandran DC Thiruvananthapuram
Land acquisition on the national highway 66 is going to be a headache for the state government and the National Highway Authority of India.
While public works minister V.K. Ebrahim Kunju has said the acquisitions will be hastened, the Highway Action Forum says it would step up the agitation.
The forum alleged the recent notification on land acquisition was complicated, and about 6,000 families were affected by the land acquisition on the Attingal road alone.
Initially, the government had wanted to acquire 60 metres on the NH which invited opposition from several quarters.
According to the NHAI Act, Kerala got a reprieve in the form of acquiring land of a width of only 45 metres.
Due to the opposition, land acquisition was not taking place for the last several years.
“The road in front of my home is yet to be developed though a stretch of 30.5 metres was acquired some 38 years back. So what is the point in acquiring a total of 45 metres as part of road widening?” asked. G. Mukundarajan, a resident of Korani in Attingal.
However, Ebrahim Kunju said his department would go ahead with the road-widening, as currently three times more than the normal traffic density was experienced on NH 66.
“The priority is to speed up the land acquisition. We are aware of the opposition, but with the Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RR) package, complainants’ woes will be addressed,” he told Deccan Chronicle.
“Since the last four years of the formation of the Hi-way Action Forum, the government had not given a single piece of land to those who lost their homes,” alleged R. Giri Prasad, Kollam district secretary of the Highway Action Forum.
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