A high-profile meeting held between Chief Ministers of Kerala and Karnataka in Bengaluru on Sunday reportedly failed to live up to the Kerala’s expectation in terms of an infra leap.
After the meeting with Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, the office of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stated that both governments had agreed to approach the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to implement the alignments from Tholpetti to Purakattiri and Sulthan Bathery to Malappuram of the Mysore-Malappuram Economic Corridor project as an alternative to the NH 766, where night time travel curbs are in force as it passed through the tiger reserve.
The Chief Minister’s office also stated that Mr. Bommai had agreed to examine the proposed Kanhangad- Panathur- Kaniyoor railway line project, which will connect north Kerala and south Karnataka.
