Udupi district in-charge minister Pramod Madhwaraj has urged the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to give priority to the four-laning of road stretch between Malpe and Adi Udupi on Malpe-Tirthahalli National Highway 169A.
Chairing a meeting of engineers of various government departments at the taluk panchayat Hall in Udupi, Madhwaraj said that Malpe housed not just the fisheries harbour but also a beach, which attracted tourists from different parts of the country.
The Malpe to Adi-Udupi stretch is narrow leading to traffic congestion. The NHAI should have included it in the first phase of expansion instead of the second phase, he said.
Earlier, the engineer of the NH Department said that a Rs 87-crore estimate for the widening had been sent to the head office in Delhi and it would be taken up in the second phase as it involved land acquisition.
Madhwaraj said that if the Centre provided funds for land acquisition on this stretch, the State government would acquire the land. When Madhwaraj sought the details of the concretisation of the Manipal stretch on NH169A, the engineer said that the State government had released Rs. 30 lakh and a similar amount had been put in by the department for the concreting work near Tiger Circle in Manipal.
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