With the completion of the Social Impact Assessment (SIA) study for the 443-m flyover at the busy Ulloor junction, the public hearing will be carried out on January 17.
Those to be displaced on account of the land acquisition for the flyover to come up on the National Highway 66-Medical College Road corridor can attend the public hearing to be held at the auditorium of Edankavu temple, Ulloor, from 3 p.m.
Study by IRD
The report of the study, mandated by the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, carried out by the city-based Institution of Rural Development (IRD) is ready.
As many as 95 landowners and 117 business establishments will be affected by the two-lane flyover and 0.563 hectares of land will have to be acquired.
The report prepared by the IRD based on the survey, alignment prepared for the flyover, revenue, and other documents is now available to the landowners for perusal.
After the January-17 public hearing, the IRD will have to include the suggestions, if any, being made by those affected and the people’s representatives in the report before the final report on the filyover s submitted to the District Collector.
The 443-m two-lane Ulloor flyover will begin from near the petrol pump after Kochulloor on NH 66 and end near the city Corporation’s Rest House on Medical College Road. Initially, it was decided to have a 390-m flyover at Ulloor. Later, the length was increased by 26.5 m on both sides by altering the slope to 1/25. With this, the cost of the flyover has gone up from the initial ₹52.68 crore to ₹79.25 crore.
The physical demarcation of the land needed was done by Kerala Rapid Transit Corporation Ltd. (KRTL), the Special Purpose Vehicle for Light Metro.
Conceived by DMRC
The flyover at Ulloor, along with the one at Sreekaryam, Pattom, and Thampanoor, was conceived by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) as part of the proposed 21.8-km Light Metro corridor.
With the exit of the DMRC, the KRTL has been been tasked by the government with the work on flyovers. Administrative sanction has already been given to the ₹272.84-crore work on the flyovers to be constructed using funds to be sourced from Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB).