After an extended wait, tenders are to be floated quickly for widening of the Marakkanam — Puducherry stretch of the East Coast Street for a size of 46 km. 

Sources within the Nationwide Highways Authority of India (NHAI) mentioned that they had deposited ₹3.6 crore with the Forest division as fee for taking over mitigation measures alongside the Kazhuveli wetlands hen sanctuary. 

“The four-lane vast highway with service lanes on both facet will run alongside the eco-sensitive zone of the sanctuary. Since it’s a freeway mission, it falls underneath the regulated class and mitigation measures like planting extra bushes for the birds to nest and rising tall bushes to chop vehicular noise can be taken up,” the supply defined. 

After Marakkanam, land belonging to a business forest with casuarina bushes can be wanted for the mission for which additionally various lands have been chosen in Dindigul and Villupuram. At Dindigul a forest land financial institution can be used and at Villupuram degraded forest lands can be used for this goal.

Round 3.6 hectares of land reverse the Forest Analysis Station at Agaram could be taken for the mission that can run for a size of 11 km alongside the prevailing highway and for the remaining flip at Koonimedu and be part of the Villupuram freeway close to Aliyur. 

The NHAI had additionally recieved clarification that because it was an current freeway and the widening was to be finished within the eco-sensitive zone, wild life clearance was not wanted for the ₹1600 crore mission.

Work on the stretch past Mamallapuram is progressing effectively and the attain from Puducherry to Nagapattinam has been largely accomplished.