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The Union authorities has approved a ₹414.16 crore infrastructure project, which includes the operation of an elevated flyover and work roads on National Highway 66 from Baikampady to KIOCL Junction, according to Dakshina Kannada Member of Parliament Capt. Brijesh Chowta.
The task involves the improvement of a 3.075 km agelong main roadworthy corridor aimed astatine improving nonstop connectivity to the New Mangalore Port. As portion of the project, a 1.520 km agelong six-lane elevated flyover volition beryllium constructed nether the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) model. In addition, work roads with a full magnitude of 5.825 km volition beryllium developed connected either broadside of the highway.
The New Mangalore Port Authority (NMPA) volition supply the required further onshore and fiscal enactment for the implementation of the project, Capt. Chowta said successful a release.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has initiated the tender process for the project, helium said.
Capt. Chowta besides said that the NH 66 agelong successful the larboard portion serves arsenic a cardinal corridor for the question of export and import cargo to and from the New Mangalore Port. The projected task is expected to abstracted road postulation from section vehicular movement, thereby improving postulation travel and enhancing roadworthy safety.
He said the roadworthy infrastructure upgrade successful the Baikampady concern country and KIOCL country would lend importantly to the concern and economical maturation of Dakshina Kannada and amended the wide connectivity successful the coastal loop portion addressing aboriginal postulation requirements.
The MP said the roadworthy agelong wrong the larboard limits was earlier nether the jurisdiction of the National Highway Logistics Management Limited, and the lack of a dedicated implementing bureau and backing constraints had posed method challenges to road improvement works successful the region.
He said sustained efforts had helped resoluteness the issues and facilitate the transportation of the port-area roadworthy agelong to the NHAI. Approval had already been granted for the operation of underpasses adjacent Baikampady and Kuloor Junction connected NH 66 astatine a outgo of ₹11.63 crore, and enactment related to the task is nether way.
“We person been consistently pursuing this task to alteration amended larboard connectivity and to foster port-led improvement successful Dakshina Kannada. The support of this elevated flyover and work roadworthy task volition importantly fortify cargo question and amended the wide connectivity successful the region,” helium said.
“I convey Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari for sanctioning this cardinal infrastructure project, which volition further pave the mode for the maturation of Dakshina Kannada towards realising the extremity of Viksit Bharat,” Capt. Chowta said.
