Corporation seeks PWD funds to rebuild footpaths

Newly laid tiles on M.G. Road and Banerjee Road were dismantled to declog drains

The Kochi Corporation has sought funds from the Public Works Department (PWD) to rebuild footpaths on Banerjee Road and M.G. Road that were relaid by Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) three years ago as part of the Kochi metro project. A decision on this will be taken shortly, official sources said. The newly laid tiles, including tactile tiles that were laid on the footpaths to guide visually-challenged people, were dismantled at frequent intervals to declog drains as part of the pre-monsoon maintenance work in May this year and in 2020. “The issue was that there were limited number of manholes on the footpaths. They are not enough to clean the drains, and the tiled portion had to be dismantled,” corporation sources said.