Minister for Social Welfare H.C. Mahadevappa, who is also the Minister in charge of Mysuru district, sought to set the record straight on the contribution of Congress-led United Progressive Alliance – 2 to improving the road infrastructure in the State.
At a function in Mysuru on Sunday in which Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari launched a series of road infrastructure projects by the National Highways, Mr. Mahadevappa, who had served as the Public Works Minister in the earlier Congress regime between 2013 and 2018, recalled the role played by him and then Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to submit a proposal to the then UPA-2 government for upgrading State highways into national highways.
Recalling that the length of national highways in Karnataka was 4,482 km when he took over as Minister of Public Works in 2013, Mr Mahadevappa said the then State government prepared a detailed project report to upgrade some of the State highways into National Highways and the late Oscar Fernandes, who was the Minister for Surface Transport and Highways in the UPA-2 government, had sanctioned, declared and notified a total of 1,882 km of State highway as national highway in Karnataka.
