Flyover inaugurated on NH-50 between Hosalli and Hitnal

A caller flyover connected National Highway 50 betwixt Hosalli and Hitnal successful Koppal taluk was inaugurated connected Friday, with officials and elected representatives stressing that the task would importantly trim accidents connected the engaged stretch.

Speaking aft the inauguration, K. Rajashekhar Basavaraj Hitnal, Lok Sabha Member from Koppal, said that efforts were connected to bring down roadworthy accidents to “near zero” by constructing flyovers astatine unsafe junctions and installing CCTV cameras successful accident-prone zones.

“Around 190 accidents hap each twelvemonth connected this 15 km agelong of NH-50 and 63, claiming astir 50 to 60 lives. To code this, the erstwhile Lok Sabha Member from Koppal Karadi Sanganna had secured ₹120 crore for gathering flyovers astatine Ningapur, Hosalli, Shahapur, Methgal, and Hitnal. These projects are being completed 1 aft another,” helium said.

The caller flyover, built astatine a outgo of ₹19.43 crore by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), is present unfastened to nationalist use. Lighting facilities volition beryllium added soon, Mr. Hitnal said. He besides noted that CCTV cameras had been installed, and velocity limits of 60 kmph for dense vehicles and 70 kmph for cars and buses would beryllium enforced with caller exertion that automatically fines speeding vehicles.

Koppal MLA K. Raghavendra Hitnal expressed restitution that the long-pending task had been completed quickly, providing safer question for vehicles. He said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah volition sojourn Koppal connected October 6 to inaugurate and laic instauration stones for improvement works worthy implicit ₹1,500 crore, urging citizens to be successful ample numbers.

Former Lok Sabha Member from Koppal Karadi Sanganna, recalling his relation successful securing support for the project, congratulated the contiguous Lok Sabha Member from the constituency and contractors for its speedy completion. He besides pressed for bypass works successful Kukanoor, Yelburga, Maski, and Sindhanur, operation of an airdrome successful Koppal, and prioritisation of railway projects specified arsenic the Daroji–Gangavati and Gangavati–Bagalkot lines.

Local elected representatives, officials and assemblage leaders, including Hosalli gram panchayat president Suresh, Koppal CMC president Amjad Patel and contractor Sharanbasavaraj Alur, were present..