In a bid to speed up the long pending Ennore-Chennai Port Road Connectivity project, the Union Shipping Ministry would hold talks with stakeholders next week in New Delhi, a top official of the Chennai Port Trust (CPT) said on Tuesday.

Officials of CPT, Ennore Port Trust, National Highways Authority (NHAI)
and the State governmment along with the Shipping Ministry would hold
discussions on January 18 in New Delhi, CPT chairman Captain Subhash
Kumar told reporters in Chennai.

The project was conceptualised in 1998 at a cost of Rs 160 crore to
improve road in the Ennore Manali area for connecting the Ennore and
Chennai Port. But so far, the project had not taken off, with the cost
escalating to Rs 600 crore.

Inflation was among the factors that had led to the cost escalation, he
said adding the shipping Ministry had called for a discussion on the
cost factor. “We have given Rs 38 crore as part of the CPT’s part”,
Kumar said.

Attributing the delay for the project to delay in land acquisition in
the past, Kumar said it was now proceeding at a “fast pace” as most of
the land has been “acquired”.

Commenting about the performance of Chennai Port in the third quarter
of this financial year, Kumar said revenues during the period
April-December 2009, has risen to Rs 538 crore as compared to Rs 503
crore in the same period of previous year.

Source: PTI

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