The construction of the long delayed model apartment complex being built by the Kochi Corporation at Mattancherry is likely to be over by this year end.
The corporation is set to resume the construction of the complex this week, which aims to rehabilitate the occupants of the dilapidated Asraj building complex.
While all the six blocks with a capacity to accommodate six families remain unfinished, eleven families had moved into two blocks after the Asraj building complex became uninhabitable.
At a meeting held last week, District Collector K. Mohammed Y. Safirulla had asked the corporation to complete the pending works of the other four blocks by September end. “Once those four blocks are readied, occupants of the other two unfinished blocks can be shifted there. Pending works of those two blocks should then be completed in the next two months,” he said.
Shiny Mathew, chairperson of Town Planning Standing Committee, said that a meeting with the occupants of the two unfinished blocks would be held shortly since they were learned to have some apprehensions about being moved out as part of completing the works of those blocks.
P.K. Ashraf, Mattancherry division councillor, said that plans were now being drawn up to complete the works without shifting the occupants considering their misgivings about such a move.
The project was initially launched with funding under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission in addition to the corporation’s funds. Kochi Refinery also chipped in with ₹1 crore under its corporate social responsibility initiative.
“So far, ₹2 crore has been spent on the project, and pending works could be completed for another ₹1 crore,” Mr. Ashraf said. The project will have an anganwadi, hall, and an overhead passage connecting different blocks among other facilities.
