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Gadkari launches NH 75 widening project, promises to start Shiradi tunnel road soon

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March 28, 2016

Mangaluru, Mar 28: Work on the tunnel road through Shirady Ghat could begin as early as November this year and be completed in two years. "The detailed project report for this project is being prepared. If the state government readies the report and gives it to the ministry of road transport and highways by June, the work on the project will be taken up latest by December," said Nitin Gadkari, Union minister for road transport and highways (MoRTH).

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Laying the foundation stone for the widening of 141 km of NH 75 at an estimated cost of Rs 2,358 crore and dedicating the completed project of his ministry at JNC Hall of NMPT on Monday, Gadkari said the 18.5-km tunnel road through Shirady Ghat will give a boost to the port connectivity and will bring New Mangalore Port on the west coast and Chennai Port on the east coast closer. It will also increase port and hinterland activities in and around the Mangaluru port.

Putting the onus on the public works department of the state government for the early submission of the project report, Gadkari said the tunnel road project will have six tunnels, longest of which is around 2.5 km. It will also have seven major bridges, with the longest bridge running to a length of 1.5 km.

"I know it is essential for the region," Gadkari said adding the ministry will accord top priority to it.

Union minister for law D V Sadananda Gowda and minister for public works and inland water ways H C Mahadevappa earlier had made a strong pitch with Gadkari to take up this project at the earliest.

Sadananda Gowda said that the project which is estimated to cost Rs 10,000 crore should be taken up at the earliest for it will give a great boost to the port to port connectivity. This project has its importance given that NMP is the only major port in the state, he added.

Mahadevappa said the PWD department will complete the report in two months and the tunnel once it is developed will be the country's first eco-friendly road tunnel. Construction of this tunnel will help develop New Mangalore Port and Chennai Port. This in turn is expected to generate a revenue to the tune of Rs 10,000 crore to Rs 15,000 crore annually.

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Satyameva jayate
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Tuesday, 29 Mar 2016

Starting is fine....when will it end...how many more years we should suffer with detours...and broken road.

IBRAHIM.HUSSAIN
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Tuesday, 29 Mar 2016

Is this BJP/RSS fuction? Except Bava there is no state ministers????

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"Humble appeal to Congress party workers that the time has come to do our best to save the lives of people of Karnataka. Hospitals across Karnataka are running short of blood. This is a call for able-bodied to volunteer & donate blood. Let us show solidarity with people in need," Shivakumar tweeted.

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March 18,2020

Bhopal, Mar 18: Congress leader Digvijay Singh's detention by police in Bengaluru is display of "dictatorship and Hitlarshahi" by the BJP, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath said here on Wednesday.

Singh staged a protest near a Bengaluru resort this morning where rebel MLAs of Madhya Pradesh Congress are staying, and demanded that he be allowed to meet them.

Singh, who has been detained by the police, accused the BJP of holding the MLAs captive and said that he would go on a "hunger strike".

Reacting to this, Nath said if the need arises he would also go to the Karnataka capital.

"Preventing Congress Rajya Sabha candidate and other ministers from meeting MLAs, misbehave with them, forcibly taken them into custody is totally a dictatorship and hitlershahi (sic)," Nath said in a tweet.

"Entire country is watching how an elected government is being made unstable and how BJP is murdering democratic values," Nath said.

"Why they are not allowing them to meet MLAs. What BJP is afraid of. BJP is playing a dirty political game in the state," the chief minister tweeted.

Demanding immediate release of detained Congress leaders, Nath said that democratic norms and Constitutional values are being stifled.

Later speaking to reporters, the CM said, "Why the BJP is afraid of presenting 16 MLAs here (Bhopal)? What is the problem in one person (Singh) meeting with 16 legislators?"

Nath reiterated that his government had proven majority on floor of the House in the last 15 months since coming to power.

Amid political uncertainty in Madhya Pradesh, the state Congress Legislature Party on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Centre and the BJP-led Karnataka government to grant it access to communicate with its rebel MLAs staying in Bengaluru.

The apex court had also directed the Kamal Nath government to respond by Wednesday to a plea by senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan seeking immediate floor test in the Assembly.

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