The Hindu Business Line : Major highway works to be over by 2012: Baalu

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Coimbatore Jan. 25 The Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, Mr T.R. Baalu, said major highways infrastructure works across the country would be complete by 2012.

Speaking to presspersons after inaugurating the Third International Construction Fair — Build Expo 2007 - he said infrastructure works covering over 50,000 km and on an estimated outlay of Rs 2,27,000 crore would be complete by the end of the current Plan period

Under the National Highways Project phase I and II, works for widening and upgrading 14,300 km of roads into four lanes have been undertaken under the Golden Quadrilateral, North-South and East-West Corridor projects.

In phase III, 10,000 km of roads will be taken up and in phase IV 20,000 km of roads will get double lane with pavement shoulders.

In the fifth phase, 6000 km of roads (with heavy traffic) will be converted into six lane.

The Centre has also initiated a project for developing expressways in a 1000 km stretch, he said and added that in phase VII, construction of rail and road over bridge and under bridges would be taken up

To a query on the delay in widening roads on the Bangalore-Kochi (National Highway 47) between Chengampalli near Erode to Walayar on the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border, he said `a litigation is pending. We are confident that the issue would be sorted out soon.'

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