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Monorail to bypass heritage zone

DMRC decides to spare centuries-old agraharam in Valiyasala street
About 240 families living in the centuries-old agraharam in Valiyasala street can now sleep peacefully as it has been decided to spare the homesteads when the Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) is laid from Technocity to Karamana in the capital.

The residents had been knocking at the doors of the executing agencies and the government after The Hindu revealed in a report that the elevated MRTS will cut across their homes.
Plea to government
They had petitioned the government and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), the consultant for the project, to change the alignment of the MRTS so that the 250-metre Valiyasala street would be spared from the alignment and retained as a heritage zone.
Following an inspection of the agraharam by Principal Adviser, DMRC, E. Sreedharan recently, the DMRC decided to take the monorail through an alternative route. On Saturday, the DMRC communicated the decision to the Vyasa Residents Association (VRA) representing the local community.
The DMRC has now asked the government and Kerala Mono Rail Corporation Ltd., the special purpose vehicle for the project, to get the 700-metre stretch of NH 66 from near the Thycaud railway overbridge- Choorakattupalayam to Killipalam Junction widened to 21 metres so that the agraharam can be bypassed. The DMRC has sought early completion of the widening.
The original alignment that cut across the street was chosen to avoid the overbridge.
Official sources said the route now proposed by the DMRC would cut across the shunting neck at Thampanoor through an obligatory span to the end of the overbridge’s arm and from there proceed to Choorakattupalayam through the median to come up on NH 66 at Killipalam Junction.

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