Kochi : The high court has ordered that if funds to relocate electric poles jutting onto the road near Pachalam overbridge are not allotted by Sept 16, the Kochi corporation secretary and the KSEB Ernakulam executive engineer shall appear personally before the court on that date.
During the hearing, the HC noted conflicting submissions by the corporation and KSEB regarding sanction of the Rs 1.60 lakh required for the project. Accordingly, the matter was posted to Sept 16. The petition pointed out that at the junction, where Chathiyath Road intersects Mathai Manjooran Road, traffic snarls had developed due to KSEB’s electrical installations.
You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Kochi | Silver Rate in Kochi | Bank Holidays in Kochi | Public Holidays in Kochi Stay updated with the latest Kochi news. A bench of Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice V M Syam Kumar was considering a petition filed by Sujith C Sukumaran of Pachalam seeking to ease traffic congestion at Pachalam junction. It was further submitted that removing them would ease the traffic bottleneck. KSEB’s assistant executive engineer stated that the requisite permission from the railway authorities had not been received. However, the railway counsel submitted that neither the corporation nor KSEB had made any request to shift the electric poles onto railway property. The bench directed both agencies to disclose in an affidavit all communications made to the railway authorities regarding shifting the poles. Download the TOI App.