Over 700 acres to be acquired for new four lane road connecting Thoothukudi, Tiruchendur and Kanniyakumari

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Over 700 acres of onshore covering Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts is to beryllium acquired for the improvement of a caller four-lane roadworthy on the Thoothukudi-Tiruchendur-Kanniyakumari route. The caller alignment is projected for astir 104 km.

Recently, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) had issued a notification for the acquisition of lands successful Thoothukudi district, including taluks specified arsenic Tiruchendur, Eral, Sathankulam and Thoothukudi.

According to sources from National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), the task was initially planned to beryllium undertaken by NHAI, and the alignment was formed and No Objection Certificate (NOC) was signed by erstwhile Thoothukudi territory Collector K. Senthilraj. However, owed to chartless reasons it was past handed implicit to the National Highways (NH) section and is present expected to beryllium handed backmost to NHAI.

The notification issued by MoRTH for the NH 32 TTK (Thoothukudi-Tiruchendur-Kanniyakumari) roadworthy has been planned to screen villages, including Nathakulam, Moolakarai, Siruthondanallur, Kandasamypuram, Keela Tiruchendur, Madhavankurichi, Udangudi, Padukkapathu and Mudivaithanendal successful Thoothukudi district. The notification for the villages successful Tirunelveli territory is yet to beryllium released.

Speaking connected this, an authoritative from the NH said NH-32 TTK Road is wholly a caller alignment parallel to the existing roadworthy astatine immoderate places. “Two abstracted Tahsildars for some the districts person been assigned for the acquisition of lands and an magnitude of ₹392.33 crore person been allocated for the onshore acquisition.” the authoritative added.

The authoritative noted that the caller roadworthy volition payment people, considering the large improvement on the agelong specified arsenic Kulasekarapattinam abstraction port, Udangudi Supercritical Thermal Power Project, Kudankulam atomic powerfulness plant, arsenic good arsenic the dense postulation question on the route.

“Approximately 1 to 1 and a fractional years has been allocated for the onshore acquisition. Following that, a Detailed Project Report volition beryllium prepared , and based connected that the task outgo volition beryllium estimated,” the authoritative said.

This caller corridor connecting Kanniyakumari to Thoothukudi via Tiruchendur, is expected to trim the question clip for the public, who undertake spiritual tourism arsenic the way has galore celebrated temples, churches and mosques.

Published - February 12, 2026 06:32 p.m. IST

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