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Industrialist Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, enforcement chairperson, Biocon Limited took to the societal media level X, tagging Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, to item the atrocious roadworthy stretches connected Hosur Road connected Sunday. “Whilst NHAI boasts of its roadworthy infrastructure crossed the country, wherefore is the country’s cardinal IT corridor NH44 - Hosur Road truthful shoddily designed and ill-maintained? It’s an eyesore - the medians and barricades are terrible, and the shoulders are not asphalted. Despite respective complaints implicit respective years determination is nary response,” she wrote.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) responded to her connected X, saying the agelong was completed successful 2010 and has since seen accelerated municipality and concern growth. Currently, the agelong handles precise precocious postulation volumes, with implicit 1 lakh regular commuters, adding to operational and attraction challenges, the Authority said. While regular attraction is being carried retired by the concessionaire, periodic renewal works, including overlay, were completed successful April 2025. NHAI has projected 4 Vehicular Overpasses (VOPs), including astatine Veerasandra (Biocon) and enactment is ongoing astatine 3 locations, it said.
“At the Biocon location, excavation had begun for a retaining wall. However, pursuing inputs from the Government of Karnataka, Traffic Police and BMRCL regarding the projected Peripheral Ring Road, enactment was paused. The excavated information has been temporarily backfilled. The contractor has been instructed to reconstruct drains and median clang barriers, on with asphalting of damaged stretches — enactment is nether way,” NHAI said.
It further said that ongoing works by different agencies were besides impacting the stretch. “Metro-related works by BMRCL, including four-lane and work roadworthy construction, are inactive successful progress, with immoderate stretches requiring rectification. Utility works specified arsenic cablegram laying by KPTCL person caused harm to clang barriers, which volition beryllium restored by the respective agency,” it said.
