Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, will soon lay the foundation stone for three road projects and a fisheries jetty in coastal Karnataka by videoconference.
Nalin Kumar Kateel, Member of Parliament from Dakshina Kannada, told media persons in Mangaluru on Thursday after conducting a review meeting with the officials of the National Highways Authority of India that the projects include the widening of the national highway between Mangaluru in Dakshina Kannada district and Karkala in Udupi district into a four-lane road.
Apart from this, two road projects will be taken up in Dakshina Kannada district under the Bharatmala programme. Gadkari will also lay the foundation stone for a fisheries jetty project under the Sagarmala programme.
