Budget 2021: Rs 65k crore allotted for 1,100 km of NH improvement in Kerala

Express News Service
KOCHI: Kerala’s highway infrastructure has been the principle focus of the Narendra Modi authorities because it has been saying a slew of main initiatives within the final two years. In Monday’s finances too, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced improvement initiatives of nationwide freeway within the state which has been choking beneath heavy site visitors from Manjeswaram in Kasaragod to Parassala in Thiruvananthapuram. 

Seetharaman introduced 3,500km of NH works in Tamil Nadu at an funding of Rs 1.03 lakh crore that embrace the Madurai-Kollam hall and improvement of 1,100km of NH in Kerala at an funding of Rs 65,000 crore together with 600km part of the Mumbai-Kanyakumari hall in Kerala. 

“The Union government’s main agenda is infrastructure development and the national highway development projects announced for Kerala are in line with the BJP government’s focus on implementing new infrastructure projects across the country,” stated BJP state basic secretary George Kurian.

Road security knowledgeable Upendra Narayan of the Indian Institute of Road Safety stated the nationwide highways initiatives will allow easy circulation of site visitors via the state. 

“A normal two-lane highway has the capacity to hold only 25,000 passenger car units a day. But in Kerala, it’s over 65,000 passenger car units a day, exposing the roads to high risk of accidents. National highways with disciplined lane traffic will minimise accidents and reduce the running time of vehicles between destinations,” he stated.

In October 2020, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari had laid the muse stone of seven freeway initiatives in Kerala price Rs 11,571 crore.