Chennai: Minister of Tamil Nadu MK Stalin on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi who asked him to direct the integration of the Ministry of Transportation and Highway (Morth) to notify eight state roads in the state as a national highway and entrusted development work with country.
Government with necessary funds.
The 500KM stretch road connects a significant pilgrimage center such as Tiruvannamalai, Tiruchendur, and Palani and the main trade center and tourists.
After the In-principle approval of the mortar for the conversion of eight eight highways as NHS, sanctions have also been given to the preparation of detailed project reports, write cm.
The Ministry of Union has provided a nod between May 24, 2016 and May 12, 2017 to a 500 km stretch of eight roads.
They include Thiruvannamalai-Kalakurichi, Vallioor-Tiruchendur, Palani-Dharapuram, Arcot-Tindivanam, Mettupalayam-Bhavani, Avinashi-Mettupalayam, and Jalan Bhavani-Karur.
Thus, the Wing Highways National Highways has taken studies for the preparation of the DPRS under the annual plan 2017-2018.
“The proposal for the road declaration has also been submitted to the Ministry on December 6, 2018.
However, formal notifications for the declaration of these roads as new NHS have not been issued by the Ministry,” CM said.
“I was told that Morth was compiling a guideline for the development of the new NHS.
However, because these eight roads have been given a principle approval, they can be notified as NHS without waiting for the guidelines.” He urged PM to direct the ministry to issue the necessary notice about this issue and entrust.
Development work with the state government with the necessary funds.
He convinced PM that the state government would expand full cooperation to take all the repair work needed on these streets in the current fiscal year.