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Kochi: To rehabilitate families staying at the railway quarters, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) plans to construct a multi-storey building on railway land.  The purpose is to enable the commencement of metro construction activities at the south station.The Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL) was striving to resolve the rehabilitation crisis, after an earlier, similar proposal, was shelved. Plans to construct a flat for the families at Karshaka Road on the Eastern Entrance side were put on the backburner, due to the high land acquisition cost.Also, action had to be stalled as one of the conditions of the French Agency Agence Francaise Developement (AFD) for extending loans was non-existence of rehabilitation issues.“KMRL has promised to construct multi-storey buildings on suitable railway land to rehabilitate the remaining 65-odd families from the staff quarters. We’ve identified the land at the northern end of the south station premise itself,” Area Manager P.L. Ashok Kumar said.18 families will be relocated from the staff quarters before Oct 15 so as to hand over a portion of property to KMRL immediately. While the rlys provided the accommodation for 12 families, the KMRL agreed to rehabilitate the rest of them.

A metro station would be set up at the Ernakulam Jn station premise to provide commuters the interchange facility. 

MG Road piling: Road caves in

Kochi: One-way traffic was enforced in the stretch between Madhava Pharmacy Junction near Chennai Silks and Padma Junction for several hours on Saturday after a small portion of road caved in near the piling site.

“It was filled with concrete and the traffic was allowed on both directions No work was affected,” an official said. Meanwhile, works on the North Railway over Bridge is almost done with the installation of the last girder above the railway line .