Bengaluru-Chennai Express Highway To Be Functional By Jan 2024, Says Gadkari
The much awaited Bengaluru-Chennai Express Highway is set to be operational by January 2024. This was stated by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari. The expressway would be essential in cutting the distance between the two major cities' travel times to just two hours.
Giving details, Gadkari added that the access-controlled highway project will soon link Chennai and Delhi as part of the extensive infrastructure being created throughout the nation.
"I reviewed the progress of National Highways projects in Chennai." The Bengaluru-Chennai highway will open by the end of the year or in January 2024. So you may launch luxury buses and sleeper coaches in this sector," the minister said, speaking at an industry function in Chennai.
"We're on the right track. "Through the access-controlled highways project, we are connecting Delhi to Chennai via Surat, Nasik, Ahmednagar, Kurnool, Chennai (and beyond to), Kanyakumari, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi (and also to) Bengaluru and Hyderabad."
His ministry is building an electric cable highway between the national capital and Jaipur, he said, and he urged the auto manufacturing industry to produce vehicles that use bio fuels or alternative energy, such as e-vehicles, in a big way to help the Centre achieve its goal of a five-trillion-dollar economy.
"I've been working on agricultural diversification to the energy and power sectors since 2004." I debuted a 100% bio-ethanol vehicle ten days ago. My dream is to ensure that methanol trucks are manufactured in India," Gadkari stated.
