The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has begun topographic survey to ready detailed project reports (DPRs) for the long-overdue bypass corridors at Muvattupuzha and Kothamangalam.
The aim is to decongest the two congested towns in the suburbs of Kochi. The two DPRs for the bypass corridors, each of which would be approximately six-km long, are expected to be finalised by December, it is learnt.
Among others, the project reports will shed light on the technical and financial viability of the two projects. Land will in most likelihood be acquired at 30-m width, while a two-lane corridor with paved shoulders is more likely in the initial phase. The two bypasses would have been shorter had they been realised earlier. They would be in the range of 5 km to 6 km since both sides of the previous alignment have become considerably built up during the past years.
