Modi government announces highway and shipping projects worth Rs one lakh crore…
The Centre has sanctioned projects worth more than Rs one lakh crore to Tamil Nadu .
Union Minister Gadkari, who handles the portfolios of road transport, highways, shipping and water resources, told reporters that the projects also include setting up of an Express Highway between Chennai and Bengaluru.
Similar to the Mumbai-Pune highway, Gadkari said a Chennai-Bengaluru Express Highway was planned at cost of over Rs 20,000 crore.
“It may be over Rs 20,000 crore project because of land acquisition (costs),” he said.
Stating that land acquisition from Karnataka government was completed, he said the ministry was awaiting clearance from the Tamil Nadu government.
On the proposed elevated corridors, the minister said the first one is the Tambaram-Chengalpattu elevated corridor at Rs 2,250 crore.
The other corridors were Poonamalee to Maduravoyal at Rs 1,500 crore and Chennai-Nellore at Rs 1,000 crore.
In a bid to reduce the number of accidents, he said the ministry would begin working on accidental spots named as ‘blackspots’ because they were “road engineering problems” and Rs 2,300 crore has been sanctioned for the purpose.
He said 61 accidental spots have been identified across the country.
Gadkari said the government would also set up ‘Bus Ports’ with international standards in various parts of the country including Coimbatore and Madurai.
As part of promoting the logistics industry, Gadkari said the ministry was planning to set up logistics parks that would attract investments of Rs two lakh crore.
“One logistic park is being planned in Nemmeli or Mappedu (in Tamil Nadu)”, he said.
“We will use the three major ports (VOC Port, Kamarajar Port, Chennai Port) for industrialistation that will boost exports of the state,” Gadkari said.
Ports in Tamil Nadu including Ennore, Tuticorin along with JNPT, Paradip and Kandla ports would be developed so that the ports can accommodate larger vessels.
The ministry planned to establish a fishing harbour at Poompuhar at a cost of Rs 148 crore and also at Chinna Muttam in the state at Rs 73.5 crore.
Referring to the fishermen issue in Tamil Nadu, he said the ministry has come with a Rs 200 crore scheme in the first phase in which new vessels can be used by fishermen for taking up deep sea fishing.
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