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NHAI moots options to solve opposition

NHAI moots options to solve opposition


Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, May 20: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has come up with three options each before district administrations of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi to resolve an issue over widening the National Highway No. 66 (formerly NH 17) at Mulky and Padubidri towns.



It has mooted the options after local people opposed the construction of bypass at Mulky (Dakshina Kannada district) and Padubidri (Udupi district) while widening the highway under phase III of National Highways Development Project (NHDP).


Comparison statement

NHAI has kept its option of constructing bypasses at both towns open with the design speed of 100 km an hour. In addition, it has proposed to widen the existing alignment of the highway either to 60 metres width or 45 metres with the design speed of 80 km an hour.


Sources told The Hindu on Thursday that the NHAI wrote to Deputy Commissioners of both the districts on March 11, 2011 to this effect. It had sent a report for all the three options with drawings and a comparison statement to each of them. The Deputy Commissioners had been requested to intimate the option acceptable to the State government at the earliest to enable the NHAI to proceed further. The NHAI was yet to receive response, sources said.


Issues discussed


The NHAI’s letters was sent following a meeting its officials had with the Chief Secretary on February 3, 2011, in Bangalore to discuss issues pertaining to widening the highway stretch between Kundapur–Surathkal-Nanthoor Junction and Talapady on NH 66 under the NHDP.


Sources said the NHAI still stood for constructing bypasses at both the places as it was most suitable from technical, social, and financial parameters. But a section of local people had been opposing it.


Mulky options

Constructing a 1.9-km 60-metre wide bypass at Mulky – the first option – requires acquisition of 11.4 hectares of private land. It would lead to demolishing 26 buildings. The project cost had been estimated at Rs. 27.24 crore.


Second option provided for widening existing 1.7-km stretch of the highway to 60 metres width requires 5.73 hectares of land. Around 30 buildings would have to be demolished. The estimated project cost was Rs. 41.28 crore, sources said. If the same stretch had been widened to 45 metres under the third option, it required acquisition of 3.32 hectares of land and 21 buildings would have to be demolished. The project cost was estimated to be Rs. 30.93 crore.


Padubidri

The first option would be to got for a 1.9-km 60-metre width bypass at Padubidri, which would cost Rs. 28.18 crore. It requires 20.4 hectares of land and 16 buildings would have to be demolished.Second option would be to widen the existing 1.9-km. stretch at Padubidri to 60 metres at a cost of Rs. 67.06 crore.


It would require 6.39 hectares of land and 96 buildings would be demolished.


If the same stretch was to be widened to 45 metres under the third option, it would cost Rs. 58.16 crore. It required 2.38 hectares of land and 72 buildings to be demolished, sources said.

Thehindu


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