MANGALORE: Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy will lay the foundation stone for the widening of Kukke Subrahmanya-Gundya road at Subrahmanya on Wednesday, according to official sources.

The road connects the temple town with National Highway no. 48 (Mangalore-Bangalore) at Gundya at the foothills of Shiradi Ghat. The Government has proposed to widen the stretch between Kulkunda and Gundya on this road.

According to officials in the Department of Public Works here, this stretch would be widened from 3.75 metres to 5.5 metres. The single lane road would be developed into an intermediate lane road, they said.

The road would be developed by using Rs. 80 lakh from Central Road Fund (CRF)and Rs. 360 lakh from Karnataka Road Development Corporation Limited. The development includes re-construction of 12 bridges on the stretch. Tenders have been called to take up works, they said.

A four-km stretch between Kukke Subrahmanya and Gundya had been widened during 2004-05 under CRF, they said. B. Nagaraja Shetty, district in-charge Minister, D.V. Sadananda Gowda, MP, will also participate in the function.

Road to be closed

Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada M. Maheshwar Rao has banned movement of vehicles from Kaikamba to Gundya on the road from December 15 to April 30, 2007 to take up widening works, an official release said.

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