With 30 acres of land and an investment of INR 3.6bn (~USD 43m), Kerala’s first cloverleaf interchange is setting into motion. The interchange is planned where the TRV port road and the Trivandrum Outer Ring Road meet NH 66. The process of laying boundary stones as part of land acquisition has begun.
The project is planned as a partnership involving the central and state governments, along with the Adani Group. The central and state governments will each bear 50% of the land acquisition costs. Furthermore, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will fund the construction of two loops of the cloverleaf, while the Adani Group will cover the remaining two. This arrangement was made to avoid placing an additional financial burden on the state government.
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