Governments urged to expedite widening work on NH66.

The Save National Highway 66 Committee has urged the Union and Karnataka government to expedite the widening work on the Kundapur-Talapady stretch of the highway.

In a release here on Saturday, B. Govindraj Hegde, convenor of the committee, said that as per the original terms, the Navayuga company that had taken up the widening (four-laning) works of the 91-km Kundapur-Talapady stretch, should have completed the work at a cost of Rs. 671 crore within 910 days from March 2010.

Since the work could not be completed by that time, the time limit for completion of the work was extended by 313 days to January 15, 2014. Now the company was saying it would complete the work by April 2015. But the slow pace of the work meant that it would take longer than that, because the company had not yet started work on full scale.


THE HINDU