The work, which include spillover of the last fiscal, totals an outlay of Rs 87.72 crore.

The projects cleared on Thursday were those submitted by the Changanaserry, Pala and Vaikom municipalities, Eettumanoor, Lalam, Pallom and Vazhoor blocks and 22 gramapanchayats.

The split up of the block-level projects and the total outlay are as follows -Eettumanoor: 58 (Rs 3.32 crore), Lalam: 54 (Rs 2.29 crore, Pallam: 66 (Rs 6.15 crore) and Vazhoor: 44 (Rs 2.92 crore).

While Vaikom municipality was given the nod for 113 projects at a total cost of Rs 2.12 crore, 95 projects in Pala and 164 in Changanaserry municipalities were also cleared. The outlay of projects in Pala and Changanaserry are Rs 2.11 crore and Rs 5.82 crore respectively.

Among the gramapanchayaths, Madapally tops the number of projects as well as outlay, which has been put at 241 and Rs 5.46 crore respectively.

District panchayath president and DPC chairman K P Sugunan presided over the meet. ADM E P Rajan, committee ex-officio members' Sudha Kurien, Flory Mathew, Molly Peter, Mary Sebastian and Girish S Nair, municipality representative P J Varghese, gramapanchayat representative T K Gopi, government nominee M G Gopalakrishnan, district planning officer M C Thankappan and others attended the meet.