The widening of Vaniyambadi-Tirupattur-Uthangarai Highway (NH 179A) in Tirupattur has picked up pace with more than a dozen illegal structures on both sides of the stretch being demolished by the State Highways Department on Saturday.
During his visit to the district last month, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin noticed that the route between Tirupattur town and Jolarpet had no basic facilities like street lights and pedestrian crossings. As a result, officials of the National Highways (NH) wing of the State Highways, which executes projects on behalf of the National Highways Association of India (NHAI), were directed by the State government to expedite the work.
“We are widening the stretch based on the availability of land on either side. The purpose of widening the stretch is to reduce by half the current travel time of an hour between Vaniyambadi and Uthangarai,” D. Kavitha, Assistant Divisional Engineer (ADE), State Highways, told The Hindu.
