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Friday, Jun 02, 2006

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Harbour-Maduravoyal elevated corridor planned

Special Correspondent

15-km-long road will cost Rs. 750 crore, says Baalu

CHENNAI: A four-lane elevated corridor from Chennai harbour (near War Memorial) to Maduravoyal has been planned, Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T.R. Baalu said here on Thursday.

To be implemented under the port connectivity scheme, the 15-km-long proposed road would be laid at a cost of Rs. 750 crore, he said, after reviewing the progress of works being carried out by the National Highways Authority of India in and around the city.

Mr. Baalu said most of them were being executed as per schedule. The completion of the second phase of the Chennai Byepass from Maduravoyal-Ambattur Industrial Estate might be delayed by four or five months. He expressed the hope that implementation of highway projects would go on smoothly with the change of regime in the State. On the status of a desalination plant project proposed by the Chennai Port Trust, the Minister said in view of "high cost," the authorities were reconsidering it. As the State Government's desalination plant project of 100 million litres a day was coming up, it was felt there was no need for the port to put up a separate plant.

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