Cabinet Committee Approved National Highway Projects

The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure on 15 April 2010 approved expansion of 12 National Highway projects and development of a multi-purpose berth at Paradip Port estimated to cost  around Rs 14,000 crore. One of the major projects approved include the four-laning of the 174-km long Nagpur-Betul section of NH 89 in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra at a cost of Rs 2,499 crore. the implementation of two laning of Dindigul-Theni section of NH45 and Theni Kumli section of NH 220 and the six laning of 59.87 km long Hosur-Krishnagiri section of NH-7 in the Tamil Nadu has also been approved. The cabinet gave its nod to the proposal of building multipurpose berth to handle clean cargo including containers at Paradip Port on BOT basis at a cost of Rs 387.31 crore. the four-laning of the 65-km long Chhapra Hazipur section of NH 19 in Bihar, four laning of Sambalpur-Orissa/Chattisgarh section of NH-6 and Bhubaneshwar-Puri section of NH 203 in Orissa and the four-laning of the 126.62-km long Karnataka/Kerala Border- Kannu section at Rs 1563 crore are among the major projects approved.