Five tasks to be taken up beneath Urban Rejuvenation and City Beautification Scheme in Thiruvananthapuram

Five tasks are set to be taken up beneath the Urban Rejuvenation and City Beautification Scheme in Thiruvananthapuram. The Thiruvananthapuram Development Authority (TRIDA) will oversee the implementation of the undertaking with the Smart City Thiruvananthapuram Limited finishing up the development work. The scheme, with an expenditure of ₹100 crore, was introduced within the 2023-24 State Budget, with comparable schemes for the opposite metropolis Corporations of Kerala.

According to TRIDA chairperson Ok.C. Vikraman, the tasks to be applied utilizing Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB) funds are aimed toward beautifying a few of the main roads within the capital in addition to finishing up infrastructural work in varied establishments. Either sides of the Chacka-Shanghumukham Beach-Thiruvananthapuram Domestic Airport stretch in addition to the LMS Church-Vellayambalam-Kowdiar-Peroorkada Road shall be beautified with flowering crops, graffiti, installations and seating preparations at varied places.

Along the Chacka-Eenchakkal route, the world under the flyover shall be beautified with a backyard, LED lighting and varied different facilities. At the Jawahar Balabhavan within the metropolis, the ‘Playscape’ undertaking will be applied at a value of ₹4.21 crore to revitalise an establishment which is among the standard summer time exercise centres for kids within the metropolis. In the primary part of the undertaking, a water play space, sand play space, nature stroll facility, data vault and parking amenities shall be added. In the second part, a kids’s theatre and library are a part of a few of the works which shall be taken up.

The TRIDA may even be overseeing the development of the V.S. Achuthanandan Park at Palayam, which shall be arrange at a value of ₹1.64 crore in an space of 1.2 acres. Minister for Local Self-Governments M.B. Rajesh will inaugurate the development work of the park on Wednesday (October 22, 2025). The Authority may even be implementing the rehabilitation undertaking for the shopkeepers who needed to be evicted as part of the Vattiyurkavu Junction improvement undertaking. An administrative sanction of ₹9.26 crore has been accorded to the undertaking. The work will start after the technical sanction is secured.