NHAI unveils 10-lane Bengaluru-Mysuru NH project

NHAI has decided to upgrade the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway into 10 lanes. It is building a six-lane main carriageway and two-lane service roads on each side. The land acquisition has been completed along the highway and the project will be completed by 2020. The Minister for Public Works in Karnataka, H.D. Revanna, said that the work to convert, upgrade and widen the highway is currently in full swing. The proposed highway will have bypass roads at Bidadi, Ramanagaram-Channapatna, Maddur, Mandya and Srirangapatna and the Mandya town may get also an elevated corridor. Revanna informed that the state government has already undertaken Rs. 1,000 crore worth of various development works.