THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Cabinet on Wednesday granted administrative sanction to the Rs. 314.51- crore urgent road repair works to be taken up outside the Corporation limits. Briefing reporters about the Cabinet decisions here on Wednesday, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said that sanction was also granted to the road repair works costing Rs. 74.42 crore within the limits of Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi Corporations. The amount required for the Corporations of Kollam, Thrissur and Kozhikode would be decided in the next Cabinet meeting on September 14.He said as the National Highway Authority is yet to take up the repair works of the National Highways 47 and 17, Rs. 20.69 crore will be spent from the state exchequer and the same will be reimbursed later by the National Highways Authority.The Chief Minister said that the State Government would seek Central assistance to the tune of Rs. 1,000 crore for repairing the roads damaged in natural calamities. He said that 8,571 km of PWD roads handed over to the District Panchayats were taken back as the District Panchayats had no fund for carrying out the repair works.The Chief Minister said that the government had decided to allot 21.25 cents of land in Ernakulam to the Brahmana Sabha at concessional rate.Restricted HolidayOommen Chandy said Mannathu Padmanabhan’s birth anniversary day on January 2 would be made a restricted holiday. The Chief Minister said that the NSS had called for declaring Mannathu Padmanabhan’s birth anniversary day as a public holiday. As the number of public holidays had already been limited, the government had decided to declare a restricted holiday.He also said that the Cabinet had decided to set up a Backward Community Welfare Corporation. SC/ST Development Corporation additional director B R Joshi has been asked to prepare a report on the formation of the proposed Corporation, Chandy said.RAF to be deployedThe Cabinet also decided to deploy five units of Rapid Action Force (RAF) at high range areas where farmers were facing attacks from wild animals.KSEB ChairmanPrincipal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) T M Manoharan has been appointed the chairman of the KSEB. CCF Raja Rajavarma will replace Manoharan as Principal CCF.Guidelines FramedThe CMsaid that the committee headed by the Chief Secretary, which conducted a probe into the functioning of the direct marketing companies such as Amway, had submitted its report.
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