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The long-awaited elevated road successful the 12.75-km-long Aroor-Thuravur National Highway 66 corridor is nearing completion, with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) completing 90% of enactment connected the project.
Sources said the ₹2,200-crore elevated operation would successful each probability beryllium opened to motorists from August, if each works went up arsenic planned. Once completed, it would beryllium the longest specified elevated road supported by azygous pillars successful the country. The NHAI had earlier acceptable February 2026 arsenic the deadline to implicit the project.
“The motorboat of girders and the installation of platform slabs implicit them are over, but connected a abbreviated agelong astatine Aroor wherever other high-tension [EHT] powerfulness lines reportedly ought to beryllium relocated. At present, the remainder of the elevated operation is being painted, portion enactment connected the drains connected either broadside is on.
The NHAI has issued a missive to the District Collector of Alappuzha, saying that it is consenting to remit to section bodies the disbursal for constructing drains that volition transportation distant h2o from the NH drains, to waterbodies connected either side. A associated inspection was conducted recently, and an estimation is expected to beryllium readied shortly,” the sources added.
The magnitude of the elevated NH would, successful the meantime, beryllium accrued by 210 metres southward from Thuravur. A twelve much pillars are being built arsenic portion of this, it is learnt.
The NHAI had earlier extended funds to the Public Works section to upgrade broadside roads successful bid to cater to postulation that was being diverted from the 13-km corridor wherever the elevated operation was being built, to the Kerala Water Authority to relocate drinking h2o pipelines from the NH, and to the Kerala State Electricity Board to relocate posts and transformers.
