Govt fast tracks ₹10,000 cr national highway project

national highway project
The Union ministry of road transport and highways has speed up the Salem, Dharmapuri, Tiruvannamalai, and Kancheepuram highway project entailing an investment of ₹10,000 crore. In this connection, the ministry issued the notification for the 59.28km-long stretch of the national highway passing through Kancheepuram district under the National Highway Act, 1956, to build, maintain and operate eight lanes of the national highway 179B (Tambaram-Harur section) of the greenfield corridor. Similar notifications have been issued for acquiring land in Dharmapuri, Salem, and Krishnagiri districts recently. The project has been taken up under the central governments Bharatmala Pariyojana initiative concerning Kancheepuram district, land would be acquired in 39 villages in Sriperumbudur, Chengalpet and Uthiramerur talukas of the area.

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