Moolampilly evictees’ long wait for link road ends

The stretch connecting rehabilitation plots to Container Road to be opened

A wait of 14 years for a link road less than a kilometre long may sound outrageous.

But that is exactly how long 13 families uprooted from Moolampilly for the rail and road connectivity for the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal had to wait for the critical link road to their rehabilitation plots. District panchayat member Elzy George will inaugurate the road on Sunday at 10.30 a.m.

The link road will connect the riverside rehabilitation plots located at a depth of nearly 8 feet to the nearby bridge on Container Terminal Road. This critical gap in access has been posing a major hurdle to the evictees in bringing construction materials to the plots and has remained unaddressed despite inspections by several officials, said a release issued by Moolampilly Coordination Committee.