Govt starts measures to take over land for NH widening in Kerala.

Ending decades long wait, the government has started measures to widen the Edapally-Moothakunnam stretch of the national highway 66. The authorities have started marking boundaries where land is to be taken over for widening the road to 45m.

As of now, Edapally-Moothakunnam stretch of the road has a width of 10m. The government had acquired the land required for widening the road to 30m more than three decades ago. But the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) couldn’t widen the road.

Meanwhile, the Union government decided to increase the width of national highways to 45m. But land owners who had once forfeited their holdings started agitation against fresh acquisition and the project remained stalled.

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