{"id":27586,"date":"2017-03-09T14:49:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/?p=27586"},"modified":"2017-03-09T14:49:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:19:29","slug":"nh-66-from-kazhakoottam-to-cherthala-widened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/nh-66-from-kazhakoottam-to-cherthala-widened\/","title":{"rendered":"NH-66 From Kazhakoottam To Cherthala To be Widened to 4-Lane Soon! DPR Sent to NHAI For Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like the development of National Highways in Kerala with a 45-metre right of way has brightened with the detailed project report (DPR) and the bid document of two corridors reaching the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for approval.<\/p>\n<p>The steppes for issuing the 3A notification for the four-laning of the Cherthala-Oachira Bypass-Kazhakuttam corridor are on. Also, Thalassery-Mahe bypass and one more highway through Kannur are also on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kerala Government has also agreed to stick to the 45-metre Right of Way and not to reduce it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The development comes in the wake of the announcement by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to go ahead with the much-delayed four-laning of the NH stretches to solve traffic and transportation problems. Kerala Government has also agreed to stick to the 45-metre Right of Way and not to reduce it.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 829Km of the NH-66, almost 640km starting from Thalapady to Edapally and Cherthala to Kazhakuttam has to be developed into four-lane. This means State has to acquire over 1,329 hectares from Thalapady on the Kerala-Karnataka border to Edapally and from Cherthala to Kazhakuttam. As much as 114 hectares need to be acquired for the 86-km stretch from Cherthala to Oachira and 142 hectares for the 86.9-km Oachira-Kazhakuttam stretch.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As much as 114 hectares need to be acquired for the 86-km stretch from Cherthala to Oachira and 142 hectares for the 86.9-km Oachira-Kazhakuttam stretch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Government is expecting some relaxation in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways norms that 80% of land has to be acquired for commencing the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like the development of National Highways in Kerala with a 45-metre right of way has brightened with the detailed project report (DPR) and the bid document of two corridors reaching the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for approval. The steppes for issuing the 3A notification for the four-laning of the Cherthala-Oachira Bypass-Kazhakuttam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":26767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27588,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27586\/revisions\/27588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}