For more than a month, work on the elevated corridor along the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway (NH 44) near Ambur in Tirupattur has been temporarily stopped by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which executes the project along with L&T, due to non-supply of river sand from government quarry at Kandaneri village near Pallikonda toll plaza in Vellore along the Palar.
District officials attributed the non-supply of river sand to the elevated corridor work, a Union government project, to the raids by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on quarries in the State since September 12. “After we took the issue to Vellore Collector P. Kumaravel Pandian, as the quarry comes within Vellore limits, nearly a fortnight ago, river sand from the quarry was supplied just for two days with 300 units of sand a day as against the requirement of 1,000 units a day for the work,” said a source.
