Four lane road between Kundapura to Goa still incomplete

Udupi: Highway work between Kundapura and Goa which started four years ago has not been completed yet. 

The work was started by IRB Westcoast Tollway Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd., at a cost of Rs.1,655 crore in March 2014.

However, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which is executing the project, has again cited land acquisition as the problem.

NHAI project director Z. Samson Vijay Kumar said about 65 hectares of land is yet to be handed over to NHAI, though it has deposited about Rs. 308 crore with the Special Land Acquisition Officer towards compensation for land acquisition.