Land acquisition delays slowing down highway works in Karnataka: Nitin Gadkari
Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said that construction of national highways in Karnataka slowed down due to delay in land acquisition and not getting early forest clearances.
The construction of National Highways in Karnataka was 1,038 km in 2018-19, 777 km in 2019-20, while it was just 671 km in 2020-21. Reasons for slowdown mainly due to delay in acquisition of land, not getting early statutory clearances like forest and environment, and other permissions like permission for quarrying, blasting and mining for sand and soil needed for construction, Gadkari said while replying to BJP Rajya Sabha member K C Ramamurthy.
