Highway to future | great expectations of new expressway to Bengaluru
The Hindu
There is considerable excitement among motorists that the new proposed expressway connecting Chennai with Bengaluru will reduce travel times and lead to a new corridor of development benefiting the three states it will pass through.
A brand new expressway is getting ready to create a path between Chennai and Bengaluru, via Andhra Pradesh. Expectations have run high since the announcement last week that the Expert Appraisal Committee of the Ministry of Environment had recommended Environment Clearance for portion of the project in Tamil Nadu and through a portion of Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.
The 258.808 km long expressway, costing ₹12,500 crore, which would allow motorists to drive safely without the intrusion of pedestrians, local traffic and cattle, a huge problem with the existing highway route, would be South India’s first expressway constructed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
Work to construct the 106 km stretch of the fully access-controlled, four-lane wide, junction and signal-free, expressway running through Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Vellore and Ranipet districts in Tamil Nadu, is expected to commence in about five months.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.