Status of the Major projects in South by Minister Nitin Gadkari
Following are the Infra projects which Gadkari gave the status update in the recent visit to Bangalore. 1. Bangalore Peripheral Ring Road This is a proposed 288km long ring road on the outskirts of Bangalore. 243 Km will be in Karnataka and 45 Km in Tamil Nadu. Currently 136 km is awarded with a total cost of 6000 crore out of which 53 km is completed. 2. Bangalore - Mysuru Expressway This is almost completed except a few under passes. Target to inaugurate by the end of February mostly by PM. 3. Surat Chennai Expressway This is a six lane expressway from Surat - Nasik - Ahmed Nagar - Solapur - Kurnool - Chennai. Passes through 6 states: Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu. This is with a total length of 1270 Km at a cost of 48000 crore. 4. Bangalore Chennai Expressway This is a 264 km highway with some greenfield. Travel time will be brought down from 5-6 hrs to 2hrs 15 min. This is a 16730 crore project and will be comple...