Odisha gives go-ahead for ₹8,000-crore coastal highway project
The Hindu
The 382-km road will connect Odisha’s Tangi with West Bengal’s Digha.
The Naveen Patnaik government has given its consent to an ambitious ₹8,000-crore coastal highway project that would connect Odisha’s Tangi with West Bengal’s Digha, six years after the proposal was mooted. If everything goes as planned, the first tender for laying a portion of the road could be invited by March next. “The State government has given consent for the coastal highway after much deliberation. We will go for different regulatory approvals required for the project as the proposed road will pass in the vicinity of various forests and Bay of Bengal and over rivers,” Ram Prasad Panda, Chief General Manager of the National Highway Authority of India, Bhubaneswar.More Related News