Mayor Rajan Pallan and team on Monday met Union Minister
for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad in
Delhi to talk about handing over of land that belonged to the postal
department to the Thrissur Corporation for the development of Pattalam
Road.
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The Union minister promised the Mayor’s team to
prioritise handing over the land to the civic body. The minister also
promised to take steps to shift the current post office to the temporary
building arranged by the city corporation within 15 days.
The
minister gave direction to the concerned authority to prepare necessary
documents for the land deal. He also gave direction to the authorities
to prepare design for the new building for the post office to be
constructed at the land allotted by the corporation.
However, the decision for handing over of land will need cabinet sanction.
It will take time of one month, according to Union Minister’s office.
Former
MP P.C. Chacko had made arrangement for the Mayor’s team to meet the
Union Minister. Apart from Mayor, the team included former Mayor I.P.
Paul, councillors K. Gireesh Kumar, C.S. Sreenivasan, M.K. Varghese and
corporation secretary K.M. Basheer.
The Mayor and team had met authorities in Delhi six months ago, in connection with acquiring land for Pattalam Road development.
The
permission was received to acquire land of the BSNL within two months.
The corporation acquired 4.5 cents of land after demolishing the
compound wall of the BSNL office.
A team was formed
with Kerala chief post master general as head for handing over the land
of postal department. A memorandum of understanding was also signed
between the postal department and the corporation.
As per the MoU, the corporation allotted 16.5 cents of land for construction new post office building.
The
corporation will bear the expense of construction of the new building
with area of 3,500 sq.ft. The corporation has arranged temporary
facility to function the post office without rent till the new building
is ready.
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