Rs 63.7 crore for Sabarimala roads

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A sum of Rs 63.7 crore will be granted for special repairs of Sabarimala roads. Briefing mediapersons on the Cabinet decisions, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said it has been decided to grant special approval for repairing all roads linked to Sabarimala.  PWD will undertake these works. Roads given to district panchayats will be taken back by the PWD.  The Thrissur -Palakkad road had become unfit for traffic. As the road came under the control of the Central PWD,   it will be asked to take steps to solve the traffic bottleneck on this route.Chandy said as  part of the ongoing efforts to improve transparency in  governance, a new file tracing system called “Ideas” would be introduced.  Anyone can  locate files and  its status under the system.  New information could be  uploaded at any time.Special Scheme He said that in the background of increasing  atrocities against women and children in the state, a special  scheme would be  formulated to check this trend. The new policy would be formulated by a committee led by poet  Sugathakumari. Mallika Sarabhai,  Sunitha Krishnan and Lida Jacob will be the members of this panel.  Social Welfare secretary  Sarada Muralidharan will be the  convener. The committee will prepare long-term and short-term plans. Nissar Panel Replying to a question on  termination  of the Nissar Commission, he said that as the government had constituted the commission it had the right to terminate it.