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Tiruchi MP Durai Vaiko has urged the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to execute the Tiruchi-Karaikudi four-lane task expeditiously.
In a practice submitted to Harsh Malhotra, Union Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways, successful New Delhi connected Wednesday, Mr. Durai Vaiko said the task was of immense nationalist value for the districts of Tiruchi and Pudukottai. The projected roadworthy implicit span crossed the level crossing astatine Karuveppilan Gate, which forms portion of the project, would supply a imperishable solution to the terrible postulation congestion faced by radical of Pudukottai for respective decades.
“I recognize the task has already received support from the National Planning Group successful January 2026 and the plan support has besides been granted,” Mr. Durai Vaiko said successful the practice and called upon the Minister to nonstop the behaviour of monthly reappraisal meetings until the commencement of the project.
In different representation, Mr. Durai Vaiko urged the Minister to nonstop the National Highways Authority of India to verify the grade of onshore already acquired for widening the Tiruchi-Karur National Highways conception successful 2015 and instrumentality steps to widen it arsenic a four-lane highway, particularly connected the constrictive stretches wherever accidents are frequent.
He observed that onshore owners who had provided their lands betwixt Thiruparaithurai and Pettavaithalai had claimed that the acquired lands person not been utilised afloat for much than a decade. The existing road should beryllium widened and improved with pedestrian crossings, subways, vehicular underpasses and lighting.
