{"id":27758,"date":"2017-05-22T11:57:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T06:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/?p=27758"},"modified":"2017-05-22T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T06:27:27","slug":"phase-2-of-nh-66-bypass-work-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/phase-2-of-nh-66-bypass-work-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Phase-2 of NH-66 Bypass Work Suspended Due to Indefinite Protest From Locals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protest from the residents along the Kottukal-Karode corridor of the 43-km Kazhakuttam-Karode NH 66 bypass demanding more compensation for the land surrendered, has stopped the road widening project along the stretch. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has approached the government to resume work.<\/p>\n<p>The work on the stretch passing through Kottukal, Kanjiramkulam, Thirupuram, Chenkal, and Karode has been suspended by the EPC contractor, L&amp;T Construction, since the last 10 days due to the protest launched by the Kazhakuttam-Karode Bypass Action Council.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27759\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27759\" class=\"wp-image-27759 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/DSC02993.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit - Abhijithh92 From SSC\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/DSC02993.jpg 640w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/DSC02993-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit &#8211; Abhijithh92 From SSC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NHAI has approached Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Minister for Public Works G. Sudhakaran, and District Collector S. Venkatesapathy seeking their intervention as they have to pay Rs20 lakh a day to the EPC contractor for not being able to execute the work. The indefinite delay will affect the Commissioning of the 16.3-km bypass from Mukkola to Karode which is on February 6, 2018.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27760\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27760\" class=\"wp-image-27760 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/DSC02994.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit - Abhijithh92 From SSC\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/DSC02994.jpg 640w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/DSC02994-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit &#8211; Abhijithh92 From SSC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>People residing in these 5 villages demand that NHAI should treat these five villages as one village and for each set of plots falling under a category, same price should be given as compensation. Other demands from the action council includes compensation as given for the Karamana-Kaliyikkavila NH 66; 14% interest for delay in compensation and rehabilitation for those who lost jobs and rendered homeless.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People residing in these 5 villages demand that NHAI should treat these five villages as one village and for each set of plots falling under a category, same price should be given as compensation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_27761\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27761\" class=\"wp-image-27761 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/DSC02995.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit - Abhijithh92 From SSC\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/DSC02995.jpg 640w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/DSC02995-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit &#8211; Abhijithh92 From SSC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As per records, 67 hectares of the 70 hectares of private land needed for the Reach II from Mukkola was acquired under the NH Act, 1966. NHAI has provided a sum of Rs462 crore\u00a0 to the State and the Deputy Collector (LA) had disbursed \u20b9445 crore to those who had surrendered land. Three hectares have to be further acquired on the stretch.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Photo Credit<\/em> &#8211; Abhijithh92 From SSC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protest from the residents along the Kottukal-Karode corridor of the 43-km Kazhakuttam-Karode NH 66 bypass demanding more compensation for the land surrendered, has stopped the road widening project along the stretch. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has approached the government to resume work. The work on the stretch passing through Kottukal, Kanjiramkulam, Thirupuram, Chenkal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":27762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[481,452],"class_list":["post-27758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-nh-66-bypass","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27758"}],"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=27758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27764,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27758\/revisions\/27764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}