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• The monorail project in city got a shot in the arm on Sunday when E Sreedharan, principal adviser to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, visited the project sites and termed the project as viable and practical.He visited the route proposed for the first phase of the project from government medical college to Meechanda. Sreedharan was accompanied by the State Road Fund Board chief executive officer P C Harikesh and general manager Sudarsan Pillai, public works department secretary Manoj Joshi and district collector, P B Salim.
• The team visited the stops in the first phase of project including medical college, Chevayoor, Kottuli, Mofussil bus stand, Manamchira, Palayam, Link Road, Kalllayi, Panniyankara, Meenchanta and Vattakkinar. The team will visit places from Elathur to Karipur on Monday.Sreedharan asked the road fund officials to conduct a detailed study after making a few changes in the alignment due to the presence of Thondayad flyover and other structures in the route.
• The former managing director of DMRC will discuss the project with V K Ebrahim Kunju, minister for public works, on the funding of the project and period of completion on Monday. Sreedharan said after meeting the minister he would decide on taking up the advisor's role of the project.The project report of monorail was prepared by the Bangalore-based Wilbur Smith Associates. The project planned in two phases, with an investment of Rs 970 crore, will cover the distance from Medical College to Meenchanda in the first phase and from there to airport in the second phase.Earlier in the morning, Sreedharan, who arrived in the city by train from Thiruvananthapuram, held discussions with Dr M K Muneer, minister for social welfare and panchayats, and M K Raghavan, MP.

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