The objective of RFP is to select a system integrator for implementing ITES. KOCHI: With an eye on reducing road accidents and traffic rule violations, Kerala Police have invited proposals for Integrated Traffic Enforcement System (ITES) in which advanced technology will be used for traffic rule enforcement activities. Kerala Police recently invited a Request for Proposals (RFP) from companies that have ...

Faced with the ₹5,182-crore Kochi metro encountering a daily loss of around ₹1 crore and recording not even 10% of the passenger patronage mentioned in the DPR, urban transport experts are demanding that metro neo, metro lite, or modernised bus transport systems be adopted for its extensions and for mass rapid transport systems (MRTS) mooted for Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode. This ...

The Thiruvananthapuram airport has been privatized disregarding the protests by the airport staff and the state government, which had later lost steam. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Thiruvananthapuram airport has been privatised disregarding the protests by the airport staff and the state government, which had later lost steam. Now it’s only a matter of months before the winning concessionaire, Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL), ...

A division bench comprising Justice K Vinod Chandran and Justice C S Dias issued the order observing that it is a policy decision of the Centre and cannot be interfered with. Kerala High Court KOCHI:  The  Kerala High Court on Monday dismissed the state government’s petition challenging the Centre’s decision to lease out the right of operation, management and development of ...

A batch of writ petitions challenging the leasing out of Thiruvananthapuram International Airport by Airport Authority of India was dismissed by the Division Bench of the Kerala High Court as it found that there was absolutely no valid ground to interfere in the proceedings that were challenged. The challenge in the petitions was against the privatisation, the declared policy of ...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Snapshot The hiring of the consultant, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Group, has led to controversy since it is owned by the father-in-law of Gautam Adani’s son Karan, and the bid to manage the Thiruvananthapuram airport was ultimately won by the Adani group itself. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala had hired a legal consultant ...

Tharoor says Kerala could have opted-out of the privatisation process, like the West Bengal and TN governments did. The Kerala government and the Centre is at loggerheads once again after the cabinet decided to hand over operations of the Thiruvananthapuram International airport to the Adani Enterprises for a period of 50 years. The tussle between Adani and Kerala CM Pinarayi ...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has alleged breach of trust as the Centre announced handing over of the Trivandrum airport to the Adani Group. In response, the Centre clarified that the bidding process was transparent. A sanitation worker sanitising touch points at a Trivandrum airport terminal in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic in Kerala. The state government of Kerala has ...