The State government has decided to bring in legislation to regulate flex boards that have of late come to swamp the Kerala landscape.
“The Bill will regulate flex boards, as well as plastic,” Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said while briefing mediapersons after a meeting of the Cabinet that took this and a few other decisions on Wednesday.
He said the drive against flex boards would start immediately as part of Gandhi Jayanti observance. “The first to go will be those with our photographs,” he said, apparently referring to flex boards promoting politicians and political parties, which form a significant chunk of those covering the landscape.
He said flex boards that carry permits of local bodies would be allowed to stay only till the term of the licences they carried ended. After that, they too would go.
Four-lane bypassThe Kazhakuttam-Eenchakkal bypass road in Thiruvananthapuram district will be widened for four-lane traffic before the start of the National Games in the State.
Assistance to landless Scheduled Castes families under an existing scheme for purchasing land would be increased from Rs.50,000 to Rs.75,000 a cent for five cents in panchayats, from Rs.75,000 to Rs.1.5 lakh a cent for three cents in municipalities, and from Rs.1 lakh to Rs.2 lakh a cent for three cents in Corporation areas. The extremely weaker sections would get an assistance of Rs.3.5 lakh a family to a build house in the land thus purchased.
To ease the prevailing glut in rubber market, Cochin Refineries would be asked to supply for the Public Works Department rubberised bitumen for road construction.
