Centre sanctions ₹15 crore to strengthen damaged stretches of Agumbe Ghat, says Udupi-Chikkamagaluru Member of Parliament Kota Srinivas Poojary

Udupi-Chkkamagaluru Member of Parliament Kota Srinivas Poojary said the Centre has sanctioned ₹15 crore to undertake roadworthy and curve strengthening enactment connected Agumbe Ghat that connects coastal Karnataka with Shivamogga and Chikkamagaluru districts done Malpe-Tirthahalli National Highway 169A.

The National Highways part of the Karnataka Public Works Department, that maintains NH 169A, has been directed to erect defender rails for a magnitude of 1,000 m wherever they were damaged.

On June 9, Mr. Poojary inspected the ghat conception pursuing complaints of accrued vehicular movement, and predominant postulation jams connected the stretch. He was accompanied by officials of the NH-PWD and the Forest Department.

With respect to a imperishable solution to postulation congestion, Mr. Poojary said proposals by his Shivamogga counterpart B. Y. Raghavendra for a passageway roadworthy oregon widening the ghat agelong into 4 lanes look appropriate. Tenders person been invited to hole a elaborate task study based connected the feasibility report, helium said. He told the NH-PWD officials to finalise the DPR tender soon.

Officials told the MP that the contiguous higher postulation measurement done Agumbe Ghat acold beryllium owed to the closure of the adjacent Hulikal Ghat. They warned that unrestricted question of goods vehicles transporting gathering material, including soil and laterite stone, contempt prohibition connected their movement, could effect successful further onshore slips on the stretch. They urged the MP to nonstop the territory medication to prohibition question of dense vehicles connected the ghat during monsoon.

Range Forest Officers Rupesh Chauhan and Chidanandappa, and NH-PWD Executive Engineer Naveen were among those contiguous during the inspection.