NH work to begin post-monsoon.

The much-delayed widening of the 90-km Kundapur-Talapady national highway into a four-lane road will only resume post-monsoon and is expected to be ready by June, 2015 .

The project was to have been ready in March, 2013 but got delayed due to funds-related issues in Navayuga Udupi Tollway Pvt. Ltd. (NUTPL), which is executing the project to facilitate movement of vehicles at speeds ranging from 80 to 100 kmph.

Mangalore-based National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) official Sri Ram Mishra told The Hindu that the 'company has no money' to resume the work now.

With the elections over, the company was expected to arrange funds in a couple of months and resume work post-monsoon. This is the second time that the company has had to stop the work.

He said there was a meeting between the company representatives and the NHAI in Bangalore recently and the company had agreed to begin the work after the monsoon and complete it by June, 2015.


THE HINDU