High-speed expressway between Bangalore and Chennai

The Federal Government has approved a high-speed Greenfield expressway between Bangalore and Chennai, designed for travel at a speed of 120 kms per hour.

Disclosing this to reporters in Bangalore, Federal Minister for Road Transport and Highways K H Muniyappa said the high-speed link between Bangalore and Chennai is among the four such Greenfield expressways cleared by the Federal Government recently.

The other three expressways connect Kolkata with Dhanbad, Delhi with Meerut and Mumbai with Vadodara. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will undertake the construction of the Greenfield expressways under a public private partnership.

The NHAI has appointed a private consultant to find out possible alignment of the expressways using satellite imageries and submit a report before the end of this year.

“We are at present studying the alignment using satellite images. Once the study is completed in four months time, a feasibility study would be conducted in another four months. The actual work could commend by end of next year”, he said.

All the four expressways will to stretch to a total of 1,000 kms and the cost of constructing the same is estimated to be around Rs 150 to 160 million per kilometer of the expressway.