Centre clears Nanjangud-Mysore highway project

The Rs 434 crore plan for improving and expanding roads in Mysore and the backward district of Chamarajanagar is getting ready for implementation.The project envisages converting the accident-prone Mysore-Nanjangud stretch of the Bengaluru-Ooty Road into a four-way lane road. The improvement of this road, NH-212, has assumed urgency in the wake of repeated accidents that have claimed lives.Apart from the existing bridge, one more bridge will be built across the Kabini at Nanjangud. The expansion of the 26-km stretch of the national highway will also provide a direct four-lane link to Bengaluru.