Gadkari to lay foundation for roads, fisheries jetty in coastal Karnataka.

Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, will soon lay the foundation stone for three road projects and a fisheries jetty in coastal Karnataka by videoconference.

Nalin Kumar Kateel, Member of Parliament from Dakshina Kannada, told media persons in Mangaluru on Thursday after conducting a review meeting with the officials of the National Highways Authority of India that the projects include the widening of the national highway between Mangaluru in Dakshina Kannada district and Karkala in Udupi district into a four-lane road.

Apart from this, two road projects will be taken up in Dakshina Kannada district under the Bharatmala programme. Gadkari will also lay the foundation stone for a fisheries jetty project under the Sagarmala programme.

The fisheries jetty will be constructed at Kulai in Mangaluru taluk at a cost of Rs. 193 crore. Fishermen from the region have been urging the government to take up this project for the past five decades, Kateel said.

Projects in progress

Various other road projects are in progress in the Dakshina Kannada district. A high-level meeting has been conducted by the officials of the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to speed up the work on a few stretches of the National Highway connecting Talapady bordering Kerala with Kundapura in Udupi district.

Though most of the work has been completed, two flyovers in Mangaluru taluk are yet to be completed. The high-level meeting has given a timeframe to the contractor for the completion of these works, he added.

HBL