CHENNAI: The State government has expressed its ‘surprise’ over a letter written by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) chairperson alleging that there was no response from it on transferring the Mamallapuram-Puducherry section of ECR to the highway authority for four-lane works.
In his letter to the State government on April 8, NHAI Chairperson Alka Upadhyaya had said as there was no response from the State government, the highway authority is construing that the government is not inclined to hand over ECR to NHAI. He also threatened to scrap the project in the letter. Replying to this, Chief Secretary Irai Anbu, in a letter dated April 20 to Upadhyaya, said the secretary to the state highways had met the NHAI chairperson in New Delhi on March 31 and had apprised him of action taken by the State government.
