Belagavi-Raichur highway project approved: Pralhad Joshi

Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Wednesday said that the Union Road Transport Ministry has approved the construction of the 300-km Belagavi-Hungund-Raichur National Highway and works will start soon.

Earlier a proposal was submitted to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari for the construction of 320 km of road and now the work has been approved. The land acquisition process is already underway and a long-time demand of the people of this part will be fulfilled soon, Joshi tweeted.

There was a long pending demand from the people of this region to build a national highway connecting Belagavi to Raichur.