Thiruvananthapuram: The National Highway Authority of India officials are expected to hold further talks with the state PWD officials on resuming the NH development work soon. But the NHAI and PWD officials told DC that they had not received any orders from the union surface transport ministry on the matter.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had held talks with union surface transport minister Nitin Gadkari on July 30. It was then decided that the central government will meet 75 percent of the land acquisition cost and the state government the rest.