Construction of Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway to start in FY22
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced that the construction of eight expressways in the country, including the Bengaluru-Chennai one, would start in 2021-22.
“The Bengaluru–Chennai Expressway will be initiated in the current financial year,” said the minister while presenting the Union Budget. “The construction will begin in 2021-22.”
The 262-kilometre Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway, which was first conceived in 2011, will reduce the travel time between the two cities to four hours once it is complete.
The proposed project will run through Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The highway starts from Hoskote and ends at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu where it will connect to Chennai’s outer ring road.
