Ninetyfive per cent of the work relating to the golden quadrilateral will be completed before December-end and the completion of the remaining portion may be delayed by court cases, said Union Minister of Shipping, Road and Highways T. R. Baalu here on Monday.
(The golden quadrangle connects all four major metropolitan cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.) sRoad laying for a length of 415 km out of 5,846 km could not be completed due to legal tangles beyond the Ministry’s control, he said.
Addressing a press conference, Mr. Baalu said the Ministry was also executing a number of road over/under bridges, and expansion work in six corporations in the State to ease traffic congestion. In the Chennai Corporation alone, 20 schemes were being implemented at a cost of Rs. 196 crore.
Schemes worth Rs.248 crore in the Tiruchi Corporation, Rs.63 crore in the Salem Corporation, Rs.100 crore in the Coimbatore Corporation, Rs.136 crore in the Madurai Corporation and Rs.122 crore in the Tirunelveli Corporation were in various stages of progress.
