The presentation of the list of spillover projects and projects to be abandoned for the city Corporation's 2022-23 financial year led to heated debates in a council meeting on Monday, with several councillors opposing the dropping of proposed projects from their wards. Mayor Arya Rajendran later clarified that only projects for which no paperwork has been done till now will be dropped, while others can be included on the spillover project list.
As per the list presented by the Development Standing Committee Chairperson L.S. Athira, 148 projects proposed in the previous year were to be dropped. The first voices of concern came from the benches of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), with Vazhuthacaud councillor Rakhi Ravikumar saying that at least two projects in her ward which are close to the execution stage have been wrongly included on the list.
