The Kerala Water Authority has commenced laying of pipelines on the Sreekanteswaram-Power House Road as part of completing pending works on the service road of the Mele Pazhavangady flyover. The work is likely to impede the flow of traffic to a certain extent.
The laying of pipes for the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-assisted water supply project as well as those for sewerage network has been delayed by several months.
Anil Kumar Pandala, managing director of Thiruvananthapuram Road Development Company Limited, the concessionaire of the 42-km Thiruvananthapuram City Road Improvement Project, said despite promises that the works would be completed by October last year, laying of pipeline had commenced only now. The deadline for the ongoing work remained unclear. It might take at least three months to restore the road after the completion of the pipe-laying work, he said, adding that the traffic would be regulated as per the directive of the Kerala Road Fund Board.
