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The State Highways commenced enactment for laying the 8.15-km Outer Ring Road (ORR) successful Su. Pallipatti colony connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) successful a bid to decongest Tirupattur municipality by diverting dense vehicles onto the upcoming road.
Officials of State Highways, which volition execute the ₹79-crore project, said that enactment volition beryllium done by NABARD and the Rural Roads (RR) helping of the State Highways. The caller agelong volition enactment arsenic an alternate way for vehicles to scope cardinal towns similar Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Hosur, Vellore, and Tiruvannamalai without utilizing constrictive stretches successful Tirupattur town.
The caller agelong volition besides supply roadworthy connectivity to astatine slightest 20 surrounding farming villages like Athiyur, Rachamangalam, Pallipattu, Kasinaickenpatti, Achamangalam, and Kandili adjacent Tirupattur town. “The caller ORR volition marque stretches successful Tirupattur municipality safer for section motorists. It volition supply alleviation to the municipality from postulation congestion, which is chiefly owed to question of dense vehicles. The full ORR enactment volition beryllium completed by 2027,” D. Rajathi, Assistant Divisional Engineer (ADE), State Highways (Tirupattur), told The Hindu.
Minister for Public Works E.V. Velu laid the instauration chromatic for the enactment successful the beingness of Collector K. Sivasoundaravalli.
At present, vehicles including goods-laden lorries and trailer lorries person been passing done the congested Tirupattur municipality to spell to surrounding districts similar Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Salem, and Tiruvannamalai. It has not lone resulted successful postulation congestion but besides successful accidents wherever the bulk of the victims are pedestrians.
“Two-wheelers and pedestrians person to navigate betwixt dense vehicles similar lorries and trucks successful Tirupattur town. Traffic regularisation remains ineffective owed to constrictive width of roads, which tin accommodate airy vehicles similar cars and auto-rickshaws,” said K. Sugan, a motorist.
Funded nether the NABARD peculiar strategy 2025-26, the caller outer ringing roadworthy volition beryllium a four-lane agelong with a width of astatine slightest 30 metres. Unlike successful municipality areas, the agelong volition person lone earthen stormwater drains to debar much roadworthy space.
Culverts, thoroughfare lights, footpaths, reflectors, informing motion boards, pedestrian crossings besides signifier portion of the project. It volition link cardinal arterial stretches similar Salem-Tirupattur-Vaniyambadi Road, Tirupattur-Dharmapuri Road, and Bargur-Tirupattur Road.
Highways officials said that of the full 43.41 hectares acquired for ORR work, 39.87 hectares are backstage lands for which the State authorities gave a compensation of ₹36.08 crore to landowners.
