Deccan Chronicle 06.01.2014
Municipality pitches for bus stand in Kalamassery
Kochi: Kalamassery is already poised for a big leap in the innovation, IT and medical sectors with a number firms having already started and more set to come. However, public transport to the interior areas where these firms are located is still a difficult proposition with very limited buses plying. Now the Kalamassery Municipality has come forward to set up a bus stand on 50 cents of land near the Kalamassery government medical college campus, to overcome this lacuna.
The old firms dotting interior Kalamassery are HMT, Naval Armament Depot, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Government polytechnic, women’s polytechnic, government ITI, women’s ITI, Food Craft Institute, Productivity Council and St Paul’s College.
The firms that have come up in the same belt recently are NUALS, XIME, St Paul’s International School, Government Medical College and the Startup Village. The firms on the anvil are the international cancer research institute and the innovation zone where 12 incubators worth Rs 150 crore will be set up.
“State Government-controlled KINFRA, which undertakes the development of industrial estates to nurture industrialization in the state, has enough land at its disposal in the area near medical college and we need just 50 cents of land to build the bus stand. Once the land is given we will start construction of the bus stand,” said Jamal Manakkadan, chairman, Kalamassery Municipality.
