Balagopal offers a hand of help to Kochi

State government will consider proposal to upgrade KSRTC bus stand, says Minister

The State government will actively consider the proposal to upgrade facilities at the Ernakulam KSRTC bus stand as well as city road development schemes, Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal has said.

Participating in a meeting convened by the Kochi Corporation to highlight the development needs of the city which required budgetary support, Mr. Balagopal offered to consider the request of the civic body to take back the land at Brahmapuram, which it had purchased at the instance of the State government, and avoid deduction of land cost from its annual plan fund allocation.

The proposal was put forward by Mayor M. Anilkumar. He pointed out that the Corporation owned around 100 acres at Brahmapuram. Though it was the civic body that purchased the land, its ownership was vested with the State government. The government has been deducting the money advanced by it for the purchase of the holding from the annual plan fund allocation, which has economically crippled the civic body, he pointed out.