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By Express News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The city corporation has now come under scrutiny for the alleged lag in Killiyar City Mission. Aimed at cleaning, rejuvenating and reclaiming Killiyar and its banks, the project was launched a couple of years back with the corporation led Killiyar City Mission responsible for its part of the river and Nedumangad block panchayat led ‘Killiyar Mission’ being responsible for its. While the ‘Killiyar mission’ is set to complete its part of the 22-km-long river on Friday with active participation of 25,000 people from Vazhayila in Karakulam panchayat to Karinjathi Moola, the origin of Killiyar, the city mission allegedly hasn’t moved past announcements. There should be immediate action on this front and the Killiyar City Mission needs to move forward,” said Anil Kumar, UDF councillor, Thiruvananthapuram Corporation. Killiyar City Mission has a budget of `50 lakhs to clean using machinery,” the mayor said..