PM Modi to lay foundation stone Surat-Chennai expressway on 19 January

The length of these two expressway sections is 65.5 km and 71 km. They will be developed at a cost of Rs 2,000 crore and Rs 2,100 crore respectively.
While PNC Infratech is constructing the 71 km section between Badabal village and Maradagi S Andola village in Kalaburagi District, Dilip Buildcon is building the 65.5 km section between Maradgi S Andola and Baswantpur in Yadgir district.In total, Surat – Chennai Expresswayu2019s alignment travels for 177 km in Karnataka from Badadal village in Kalaburagi district to Singnodi in Raichur district.An Expressway Connecting Western And Southern IndiaSurat – Chennai Expressway will pass through six states- Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu. It will reduce the road distance between Surat and Chennai from the present 1,600 km to 1,270 km.The project is envisioned as a combination of two partially access-controlled economic corridors i.e Chennai to Solapur and Solapur to Surat). It includes the construction of greenfield stretches and upgrading brownfield sections
 Source: India todayThe corridor will pass through major cities like Nashik, Ahmednagar, Solapur, Kalaburgi, Kurnool, Kadappa, and Tirupati.While the Surat u2013Solapur part (via Nashik u2013 Ahmednagar ) will be 564 km long, the Solapur – Chennai part (via Kurnool) is of 707 km length.The stretches between Surat and Ahmednagar via Nasik and Akkalkot to the Kurnool section that links Maharashtra with Telangana and Andhra Pradesh via Karnataka will be developed as greenfield alignments.The greenfield portion of the corridor is close to 520 km. The rest of the corridor includes the upgradation of the existing two-lane roads.This expressway project is estimated to cost anywhere between Rs 45,000 to Rs 50,000 crore. After the 1,350 km long Delhi – Mumbai Expressway and the Surat – Chennai Expressway at 1,270 km length will be the second longest expressway in India.It has been rightly said by Nithin Gadkari ji, the minister of road transport and highways in India, that the road and infrastructure are the pathway to India becoming a developed country. 
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