thiruvananthapuram a meeting of the district development council has urged the officials concerned to speed up various construction works in the district the meeting was held at the collectorate conference hall on saturday the meeting chaired by the district collector geromic george has given directions to the officials for speeding up the maintenance works of the roads and the completion of the outer ring road work various development projects were evaluated in the meeting the collector said that the hurdles in starting the kerala water authority project kailasa theertham would be resolved soon while assessing the progress of the venjaramoodu ring road and vamanapuramchittar road the officials have been asked for the speedy completion of the construction work the meeting also discussed measures to ensure safe and secure travel to ponmudi the progress of renovation works in the neyyar dam area was also assessed and the irrigation department was instructed to complete the work in a time bound manner the officials have been given directions to speed up the construction of the protective wall in the kallar tourist area the progress of the construction of pozhiyoor harbour was also reviewed in the meeting it was suggested that the services of the nephrology doctors as well as a 24hour police aid post service should be ensured at the neyyattinkara general hospital apart from mlas from the district adm anil jose j district planning officer v s biju representatives of mps and districtlevel officials of various departments also participated in the meeting