While posting several news in SSC, I hit upon this topic and thought to start a thread.

Friends, as all know, Kochi is one of the growing metropolis of our state. The city has outgrown massively that most of its western parts Ernakulam district emerged out as a single continuous urban entity.

While travelling to Thrissur towards North or Alapuzha towards south, one finds the potentiality of TWINNING KOCHI with other major cities.

Sometime back, we had a discussion in Thrissur forum about possibilities of twinning the city with Kochi. I thought to start this thread, to discuss the potentiality of twinning the Kochi with 3 major cities of Central Kerala, to form a Sustainable Urban region.

I believe there is enough potentiality to twin Kochi with Thrissur and Alapuzha as first phase and slowly Kottayam as second phase.

The reasons I believe for success of Kochi-Thrissur

1. Thrissur has traditionally been part of Kochi and culturally & traditionally aligned to each other
2. Most of the business community based in Thrissur, played a key role in developing Kochis commercial interests and Kochi’s local economy heavily funded Thrissur’s growth
3. Scarcity of land in Kochi has successfully developed Thrissur real-estate area and a large number of good towns and real estate projects dot the way from Edapally side to Thrissur
4. The stretch has emerged as one of the most busiest transport corridor and with opening of redeveloped Edappally-Mannutty Highway, reaching Thrisur from Kochi, is just a matter of 40 mins to one hour
5. The presence of Cochin Airport, located middle of Kochi-Thrissur highway helps to increase business development of both the places mutually

The reasons I believe for success of Kochi-Alapuzha twinning

1. Kochi-Alapuzha highway is almost developed like Kochi-Thrissur
2. Both cities can be reached within an hour
3. Kochi’s airport and port has helped Alapuzha’s tourism to grow massively

Issues:- Unlike Kochi-Thrissur, many towns and places lying inbetween Kochi-Alleppy hasn’t developed
Kochi-Alapuzha has no common cultural relations unlike former
Business potentiality in Alapuzha is comparatively lower due to presence of strong trade unions and communist movements

Potentiality:- Presence of large tracts of under-utlized land which can be redeveloped into quality urban sphere
The natural beauty of Alapuzha can be a crowd puller for Kochi based investments to move down

So lets now discuss the potentiality of twining potentiality….

While posting several news in SSC, I hit upon this topic and thought to start a thread.

Friends, as all know, Kochi is one of the growing metropolis of our state. The city has outgrown massively that most of its western parts Ernakulam district emerged out as a single continuous urban entity.

While travelling to Thrissur towards North or Alapuzha towards south, one finds the potentiality of TWINNING KOCHI with other major cities.

Sometime back, we had a discussion in Thrissur forum about possibilities of twinning the city with Kochi. I thought to start this thread, to discuss the potentiality of twinning the Kochi with 3 major cities of Central Kerala, to form a Sustainable Urban region.

I believe there is enough potentiality to twin Kochi with Thrissur and Alapuzha as first phase and slowly Kottayam as second phase.

The reasons I believe for success of Kochi-Thrissur

1. Thrissur has traditionally been part of Kochi and culturally & traditionally aligned to each other
2. Most of the business community based in Thrissur, played a key role in developing Kochis commercial interests and Kochi’s local economy heavily funded Thrissur’s growth
3. Scarcity of land in Kochi has successfully developed Thrissur real-estate area and a large number of good towns and real estate projects dot the way from Edapally side to Thrissur
4. The stretch has emerged as one of the most busiest transport corridor and with opening of redeveloped Edappally-Mannutty Highway, reaching Thrisur from Kochi, is just a matter of 40 mins to one hour
5. The presence of Cochin Airport, located middle of Kochi-Thrissur highway helps to increase business development of both the places mutually

The reasons I believe for success of Kochi-Alapuzha twinning

1. Kochi-Alapuzha highway is almost developed like Kochi-Thrissur
2. Both cities can be reached within an hour
3. Kochi’s airport and port has helped Alapuzha’s tourism to grow massively

Issues:- Unlike Kochi-Thrissur, many towns and places lying inbetween Kochi-Alleppy hasn’t developed
Kochi-Alapuzha has no common cultural relations unlike former
Business potentiality in Alapuzha is comparatively lower due to presence of strong trade unions and communist movements

Potentiality:- Presence of large tracts of under-utlized land which can be redeveloped into quality urban sphere
The natural beauty of Alapuzha can be a crowd puller for Kochi based investments to move down

So lets now discuss the potentiality of twining potentiality….
I support your view points mohammed:)

While posting several news in SSC, I hit upon this topic and thought to start a thread.

Friends, as all know, Kochi is one of the growing metropolis of our state. The city has outgrown massively that most of its western parts Ernakulam district emerged out as a single continuous urban entity.

While travelling to Thrissur towards North or Alapuzha towards south, one finds the potentiality of TWINNING KOCHI with other major cities.

Sometime back, we had a discussion in Thrissur forum about possibilities of twinning the city with Kochi. I thought to start this thread, to discuss the potentiality of twinning the Kochi with 3 major cities of Central Kerala, to form a Sustainable Urban region.

I believe there is enough potentiality to twin Kochi with Thrissur and Alapuzha as first phase and slowly Kottayam as second phase.

The reasons I believe for success of Kochi-Thrissur

1. Thrissur has traditionally been part of Kochi and culturally & traditionally aligned to each other
2. Most of the business community based in Thrissur, played a key role in developing Kochis commercial interests and Kochi’s local economy heavily funded Thrissur’s growth
3. Scarcity of land in Kochi has successfully developed Thrissur real-estate area and a large number of good towns and real estate projects dot the way from Edapally side to Thrissur
4. The stretch has emerged as one of the most busiest transport corridor and with opening of redeveloped Edappally-Mannutty Highway, reaching Thrisur from Kochi, is just a matter of 40 mins to one hour
5. The presence of Cochin Airport, located middle of Kochi-Thrissur highway helps to increase business development of both the places mutually

The reasons I believe for success of Kochi-Alapuzha twinning

1. Kochi-Alapuzha highway is almost developed like Kochi-Thrissur
2. Both cities can be reached within an hour
3. Kochi’s airport and port has helped Alapuzha’s tourism to grow massively

Issues:- Unlike Kochi-Thrissur, many towns and places lying inbetween Kochi-Alleppy hasn’t developed
Kochi-Alapuzha has no common cultural relations unlike former
Business potentiality in Alapuzha is comparatively lower due to presence of strong trade unions and communist movements

Potentiality:- Presence of large tracts of under-utlized land which can be redeveloped into quality urban sphere
The natural beauty of Alapuzha can be a crowd puller for Kochi based investments to move down

So lets now discuss the potentiality of twining potentiality….

Great start. I think Kochi's development is fast moving towards other districts like Trichur and Alleppy. Moreover, Kochi is almost developed to its district borders such as Ankamali in the North and Aroor side in the South. Moreover the town in the neighbouring districts such as Cherthala in Alleppy and Chalakudi and Koratty region in Trichur district are developing fast just because of Kochi's influence. The great thing is Trichur is seeing tremendous development in the city and district due to the proximity of Cochin city. :banana:

Great start. I think Kochi's development is fast moving towards other districts like Trichur and Alleppy. Moreover, Kochi is almost developed to its district borders such as Ankamali in the North and Aroor side in the South. Moreover the town in the neighbouring districts such as Cherthala in Alleppy and Chalakudi and Koratty region in Trichur district are developing fast just because of Kochi's influence. The great thing is Trichur is seeing tremendous development in the city and district due to the proximity of Cochin city. :banana:

Apart from proximity to Kochi , Trichur by itself is a commercial city with an agricultural hinterland of its own. It is the original "gold city" of kerala much before swanky jewellery shops started springing up in all towns/cities of Kerala. It is also the the place where private banking industry started in Kerala ( a La Manipal) . Trichur's position as the cultural capital of kerala along with a strong business base and Gulf connections make it a fast developing city.

Great start. I think Kochi's development is fast moving towards other districts like Trichur and Alleppy. Moreover, Kochi is almost developed to its district borders such as Ankamali in the North and Aroor side in the South. Moreover the town in the neighbouring districts such as Cherthala in Alleppy and Chalakudi and Koratty region in Trichur district are developing fast just because of Kochi's influence. The great thing is Trichur is seeing tremendous development in the city and district due to the proximity of Cochin city. :banana:


Hello reghu,

Though there is strong development happening in Greater Kochi Region, I feel the development towards southern side is comparatively slower than Northern. If we look, Cherthala which is more closer to Kochi, hasn’t developed to levels which Chalakudi has grown even though its more far.

I basically feel southern side has more potentiality to grow, because compared to northern sides, land is more available. Despite of rapid growth of Kochi, only till Aroor we can see development happening, whereas there has been a massive development opportunities toward North.

Of-course generally Thrissurkars are more smarter in developing things due to their business acumen. But still, I still wonder why growth is not as stimulating as in North.

I think, what this region urgently requires is a rapid transport corridor, which can take off the region to greater heights. I believe, a dedicated EMU lines from Alapuzha to Thrissur, coupled with declaring more parts into KCR region as U/A under JNNURM, can bring in better transport facilities, which surely fuel more growth.

The govt must take care developing southern side, particularly Cherthala-Aroor stretch into a developed Urban sphere.

I feel, the southern side can become big, if the New Kochi Byepass starts from Aroor via Aroorkutty, then extend to Udayamperoor and connect to Puthencruz via an expressway and redevelop existing roads that directly connects to Aluva

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/2892/newbridge.png

This will help the southern sides to grow into a major commercial belt and grow similar to Aluva-Angamally stretch. I feel Cherthala-Thuravoor-Aroor will be the next major commercial highstreet, if proper planning is done.

what about the flyover over Amballur Junction?

what about the flyover over Amballur Junction?

Are you talking about Amballur near Thrissur or the Amballur near Tripunithara?

My proposal underlines for a new large bridge nearly 8 kms over Kayal from Aroorutty to Amballur located in Ernakulam-Ettamanoor Highway.

I was talking about development of Cherthala-Kochi highway, similar to Edapally-Chalakudi stretch with various commercial and development projects as its underdeveloped. A new Byepass expressway will boost more traffic towards southern side, which can increase its potentiality.

Twinning is not the same as Twin - Twinning 2 cities is not the same as Twin City - if you want to change the title that is.

Twinning is not the same as Twin - Twinning 2 cities is not the same as Twin City - if you want to change the title that is.

Strictly speaking, Twin cities normally refer to places connected thro' a formal agreement, separted by geographically or culturally.

But in local context, its creation of a region due to its continous inter-dependence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_towns_and_sister_cities

While technically twin cities means more of cultural exchange or urban development support. By region for more of economic and social facilities area. So I don't know how we can call this arrangement in its actual technical term. I think, Moderators can decide what should be actual term

Are you talking about Amballur near Thrissur or the Amballur near Tripunithara?

My proposal underlines for a new large bridge nearly 8 kms over Kayal from Aroorutty to Amballur located in Ernakulam-Ettamanoor Highway.

I was talking about development of Cherthala-Kochi highway, similar to Edapally-Chalakudi stretch with various commercial and development projects as its underdeveloped. A new Byepass expressway will boost more traffic towards southern side, which can increase its potentiality.

No I am talking about Amballur in Thrissur district.:)

Hey dear guys, come on please be active on this thread. This is an important thread in which we can deal interconnecting buisiness and developmental issues of Thrissur , Kochi
and Alappuzha. It is a good initiative from Mohammed, but nobody posts the news regarding the subject. So I welcome all the guys to this thread .

I invite you to the discussion regarding the necessity of Memu service between Shoranur and Ernakulam. It is a longawaited demand from Thrissurkar and people from Kochi. It is true that the four line highway has been constructed and this has reduced the timing between Thrissur and Kochi little bit. But I think, after 2-3 years the number of vehicles may increase. Since the above mentioned aspect, cost of road traffic, and strain of road traffic,people have tendency to go by train on either side. So now itself, the trains are crowded especially passenger trains. So the introduction of MEMU train is inevitable in this route. Since almost 50-60 trains are passing on either directions , rail traffic is also almost congested. Moreover, whenever the GVR-Thirunnavaya railway line is implemented, then we can expect more train in this route. Also the goods traffic is more in this route compared to any other route in Kerala. In this circumstance, the four line railway track is an essential thing in this route. The Government and Railway should focus in this issue.

The industrial corridor is the another key factor, in which our Government has to focus. Thrissur and Ernakulam districts are the districts in which the most number of companies are registered in the last year and in the first three months in this year. The influence of Coimbatore is also important in the industrial corridor between Kochi-Coimbatore, which includes Thrissur. The smalll scale units should be given assistance to work smoothly.

Tourism corridor.: Thrissur , Ernakulam, Alappuzha contains a lot of Tourist and Pilgrim places. So the possiblities of the tourism can also be opened.

IT parks: The infopakr Kochi, Koratty, the IT park of elite group at Pudukkad, proposed technopark at Thrissur provide IT friendly environment. The proposed technopark should be opened as soon as possible. This area should contain more IT parks.

Educational Hub. Thrissur is going to become a major Education hub: Proposed international university, science and technology park, and currently working educational institutions of various sector, CUSAT,Fisheries University, Medical/Agricultural Universities etc add the flavours to this sector.

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^^U've spoken bt 4 line railtrack @Thrissur-Ernakulam. But guess.. forgot 2 ask atleast a 2line Ernakulam-Alappuzha RailLine. Well, that's perhaps being explored. Let's wait 4 d details @ Railway thread.. soon.. :)

^^U've spoken bt 4 line railtrack @Thrissur-Ernakulam. But guess.. forgot 2 ask atleast a 2line Ernakulam-Alappuzha RailLine. Well, that's perhaps being explored. Let's wait 4 d details @ Railway thread.. soon.. :)
no no Kumar, I am not ignoring you don't think that, The doubling work of Alappey-Ernakulam has been started. It will complete. I mentioned above is future plan. ie afte the doubling work, they have to concentrate on the construction of four line track in between Ernakulam and Palakkad stations. In Ernakulam-Shoranur sector, around 50 passenger trains and a lot of goods trains are going every day on either direction. Train traffic is more in this sector. When Guruvaryur-Thirunnavayal line is finished, we can expect more trains in this route. Moreover, considering the increase in crowd on either direction, MEMU train has to be launched immediately. Considering these facts, the entire track should be converted to 4 line other wise trains have to wait for signal in different stations for long time in the future. So now a four line track is essential in this sector. That is the fact I mentioned, but I am also supporting the doubling of Aleppey-EKM . But the work has been started and is going on in fulll swing. I can say this bcoz i have gone through this route last day.:)

I never said you ''ignored''! But doubling work @Ernakulam-Alapuzha is not in ''full swing'' as you said. I regularly travel Trivandrum-Ernakulam route. Doubling work has been done @Kayamkulam-Harippad that too, except at crossings & linking work of tracks.

no no Kumar, I am not ignoring you don't think that, The doubling work of Alappey-Ernakulam has been started. It will complete. I mentioned above is future plan. ie afte the doubling work, they have to concentrate on the construction of four line track in between Ernakulam and Palakkad stations. In Ernakulam-Shoranur sector, around 50 passenger trains and a lot of goods trains are going every day on either direction. Train traffic is more in this sector. When Guruvaryur-Thirunnavayal line is finished, we can expect more trains in this route. Moreover, considering the increase in crowd on either direction, MEMU train has to be launched immediately. Considering these facts, the entire track should be converted to 4 line other wise trains have to wait for signal in different stations for long time in the future. So now a four line track is essential in this sector. That is the fact I mentioned, but I am also supporting the doubling of Aleppey-EKM . But the work has been started and is going on in fulll swing. I can say this bcoz i have gone through this route last day.:)

Yes you are right there....

Thrissur - Cochin as we know is a One of the Twin Corporations with more than 10 Municipalities between them...

As per 2010 Census it is a part of one of the biggest UA.

The Thrissur - Cochin Corridor in already developed but the connectivity between them needs to be improved..

As the Airport also comes in between the two cities... One should think of a faster/better connectivity...

Currently we have a very good NH connecting them but as it is the only pathway to reach central kerala from Northern states it will not be sufficient...

Either extenting the Metro rail to Thrissur or 4 laning the rail for a fast sub urban rail is a necessity of future....

KOCHI. Suburban rail services from Kochi to neighbouring districts seem to be a far cry.

The Railways are not too keen on the rail network, which would have provided fast connectivity from Kochi to Kottayam, Alappuzha and Thrissur districts. The reason cited by senior officials is the ‘low patronage’ enjoyed by push-pull trains. “Many of these trains had to be withdrawn, as people did not like to travel in coaches without toilets,” an official said.

The suburban rail-network requires dedicated tracks, like in Mumbai and Chennai. As of now, even doubling the existing single-line tracks is a tough proposition and the tracks are running in excess of their capacity.

“Moreover, passenger trains are now less congested after the number of coaches of each train was increased from 10 to 14.”

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation had carried out a study on the feasibility of operating an inter-district suburban-rail service, with Kochi as the centre. A high-ranking official of the Corporation said suburban services were possible in the Guruvayoor-Thrissur-Kochi; Alappuzha-Kochi; and Kottayam-Kochi sectors. “What the metro-rail is for intra-district travel is the suburban rail network for inter-district commuting. People (who work in Kochi) would be willing to settle outside the city and even in nearby districts, thus decongesting it, once suburban trains at frequent intervals become a reality. The existing rail lines can be used since electrification has been done in most routes.”

The suburban network will augment the proposed metro-rail service, as commuters can alight at Aluva, Kalamassery or Thripunithura railway stations and commute to their workplace using the metro, instead of travelling all the way to the two railway stations in the city.

Suburban trains would also see bus commuters shift to it, as the fares will be much lower.

Mainline EMUs
Railway sources said introducing mainline electrical multiple units (MEMUs) would make commuting faster and user-friendly. “They would ultimately replace some passenger trains. The advantages are many – acceleration and deceleration are faster and they


i doubt whether the Metro rail need has restricted the SUburban train between Thrissur - EKM

I never said you ''ignored''! But doubling work @Ernakulam-Alapuzha is not in ''full swing'' as you said. I regularly travel Trivandrum-Ernakulam route. Doubling work has been done @Kayamkulam-Harippad that too, except at crossings & linking work of tracks.

Railways giving more priority of its track doubling works to Kayamkulam-kottayam-ernakulam line more than allappuzha line.Main reason is kottayam line is more saturated and more profitable tha allappuzha.Land aquisition near to ernakulam south station towards allappuzha is not much easy and more costly

Yeah.. the three long bridges on Ernakulam-Alapuzha route must not be ignored when we speak about it.
I reminded 'Alapuzha' because of the TITLE of this thread.. That's all.

+ what I want to say is, Though I'm not aware about the 'profitability factor' of alternate rail routes towards Trivandrum, it seems Kayamkulam-Harippad track doubling can be completed soon, counting on the progress of work already done there.. Kottayam tunnel also seems to be a trouble in track doubling work on that route. We can only wish them speedy success on that project..too..

Strictly speaking, Twin cities normally refer to places connected thro' a formal agreement, separted by geographically or culturally.

But in local context, its creation of a region due to its continous inter-dependence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_towns_and_sister_cities

While technically twin cities means more of cultural exchange or urban development support. By region for more of economic and social facilities area. So I don't know how we can call this arrangement in its actual technical term. I think, Moderators can decide what should be actual term
I agree with you

Typical example ...Hubli- Dharwad are twin cities. They have one corporation. I have not seen this type of twin cities here in the UK or atleast they do not use this term for cities which are close to each other having one council.

Twin city concept or twinning is a different concept. I am not sure if any Kerala city is twinned with some other city. Mangalore has always a twinning arrangement with Hamilton ,Canada but last year it was selected amongst all city corporations in India to be twinned with Delta City of British columbia in Canada . It is mainly for cultural and trade exchanges.
In the UK whenever we enter a town there is a board explaining that this city is twinned with...

i doubt whether the Metro rail need has restricted the SUburban train between Thrissur - EKM
But we, the malayalees ,travel in suburban trains in Mumbai from CST to Panvel/Kalyan/Hasangaon/Badlapur or Churchgate to Virar(time will be almost 2hrs) and in Chennai Beach/park to Thiruvanmiyur/Thambaram regularly. There is not such problem for malayalees. But here railway sees this kind of problems. Really a contradiction.

I agree with you

Typical example ...Hubli- Dharwad are twin cities. They have one corporation. I have not seen this type of twin cities here in the UK or atleast they do not use this term for cities which are close to each other having one council.

Twin city concept or twinning is a different concept. I am not sure if any Kerala city is twinned with some other city. Mangalore has always a twinning arrangement with Hamilton ,Canada but last year it was selected amongst all city corporations in India to be twinned with Delta City of British columbia in Canada . It is mainly for cultural and trade exchanges.
In the UK whenever we enter a town there is a board explaining that this city is twinned with...
Hyderabad-Secunderabad is another example.:)

Twin city concept or twinning is a different concept. I am not sure if any Kerala city is twinned with some other city. Mangalore has always a twinning arrangement with Hamilton ,Canada but last year it was selected amongst all city corporations in India to be twinned with Delta City of British columbia in Canada . It is mainly for cultural and trade exchanges.
In the UK whenever we enter a town there is a board explaining that this city is twinned with...

Definitely yes! :)

Kochi is now Twinned to Norfolk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia) in USA.

Tvm is twinned to Barcelona, Spain.

Hyderabad-Secunderabad is another example.:)

Thanks Mahesh,I completely forgot the two most important cities:bash:

Definitely yes! :)

Kochi is now Twinned to Norfolk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia) in USA.

Tvm is twinned to Barcelona, Spain.

Thanks Malayaali.That is great news. Thrissur does have lot of influence abroad in the form of Kerala Kalamandalam . May be it will be the next.Mahesh someone should take it up with the authorities. Kerala Kalamandalam (the one near Shornur) had a real wide audience all over the world.

^^ The arch dioces has a plan to build a new Kalamandalam,

Completetly agree with Ajay

I agree with you

Typical example ...Hubli- Dharwad are twin cities. They have one corporation. I have not seen this type of twin cities here in the UK or atleast they do not use this term for cities which are close to each other having one council.

Twin city concept or twinning is a different concept. I am not sure if any Kerala city is twinned with some other city. Mangalore has always a twinning arrangement with Hamilton ,Canada but last year it was selected amongst all city corporations in India to be twinned with Delta City of British columbia in Canada . It is mainly for cultural and trade exchanges.
In the UK whenever we enter a town there is a board explaining that this city is twinned with...

Thiruvananthapuram was twinned with Galveston (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston), USA in 1994 and Barcelona (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona), Spain in 2009.

Kochi was twined with Norfolk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia) in 2010.:cheers:

Thiruvananthapuram was twinned with Galveston (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston), USA in 1994 and Barcelona (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona), Spain in 2009.

Kochi was twined with Norfolk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia) in 2010.:cheers:

Thanks Xeno Axe

That was useful.:)

wonder, happens to b great thread why no posts here!

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