NHAI revives ₹10,000-cr Chennai-Salem e-way project
The NHAI has to carry out a comprehensive socio-economic assessment with emphasis on the impact of ongoing land acquisition on the locals living around the proposed alignment. An assessment of impact on local biodiversity, wildlife corridors and its mitigation strategy, including baseline generation, wildlife movement, and identification of corridors along 277.3km corridor has been completed by the department of environmental science and engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad. Similarly, Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore, completed an ecosystem study. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari assured that the project would be completed by 2025. NHAI has appointed KITCO (a Kerala government undertaking) to carry out the socio-economic study and after completion, the environmental impact assessment report has to be prepared and submitted to the pollution control board.