CHENNAI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced 3500 km of national highway projects in Tamil Nadu at an investment of Rs 1.03 lakh crore in the Union Budget on Monday.
This includes the Madurai-Kollam corridor and Chittoor-Thatchur corridor. The construction will start next year. The project is part of the economic corridor projects. Already, bids have been invited for the 116 km Chittoor-Thatchur corridor, said a National Highways official.
He said that bids for the Madurai-Kollam corridor where a 150 km stretch will come under Tamil Nadu’s jurisdiction would be invited soon. “These are inter-state corridors and are being developed as economic corridors,” he said.
