C Shivakumar
Chennai:
The work to complete the Rs 495 crore Phase II extension
of Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) between Velachery and St Thomas Mount would
be taken up next month.
A CMDA official told Express that the work would resume
after the beneficiaries, who had approached the High Court against the
acquisition of 500 metres of land is compensated.
A total of 28 beneficiaries have been identified and they
have to be compensated under the Union government’s new land acquisition act
which came into being from this year.
He said the earlier compensation was based on old land
acquisition act and now the compensation is being reviewed under the new act
which replaced the 119-year-old obsolete legislation.
To a query on what would be the total reworked
compensation, the official refused to provide any details. “It is being worked
out,” he said
The proposed alignment and extension of Phase-II took
place in the year 2008 and till now 3.7 km out of the 5 km stretch of MRTS line
has been completed.
The project envisages development of the elevated MRTS on
single pillars along the median of the Inner Ring Road (IRR) from MBL Road to
St Thomas Road for a distance of about 5 km.
The state government is sharing the 33 per cent of cost
while 67 per cent is shared by Union government. The project envisages
construction of two intermediate stations Puzhuthivakkam and Adambakkam.
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