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tsubba - 1 November, 2007 | Infrastructure | Bangalore | Chennai
Chennai-Bangalore industrial corridor Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to “announce the development of the Chennai-Bangalore industrial corridor as an Industrial Corridor of Excellence on the lines of the Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor.” In a letter to Dr. Singh on October 26, Mr. Karunanidhi said many multinational companies had chosen Chennai to set up huge manufacturing facilities. Many Special Economic Zones were coming up. Most of these investments were in the corridor between Chennai and Sriperumbudur. “Our Government has, therefore, decided to develop Chennai-Sriperumbudur-Ranipet as an Industrial Corridor of Excellence. It is our vision to locate industrial parks, SEZs, IT parks, integrated townships, etc., along the corridor,” he said. The objective was to provide “globally competitive infrastructure and promote inclusive and sustainable industrial development.” Said Mr. Karunanidhi: “We expect that this process of development will slowly move beyond Ranipet on the National Highway towards Bangalore. Thus there is great potential to develop the Chennai-Bangalore corridor as an Industrial Corridor of Excellence similar to the Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor announced by the Government of India. “You will agree that the concept of balanced development of all regions would call for urgent steps to develop the Chennai-Bangalore corridor while the Delhi-Mumbai corridor is being developed. “The corridor between Chennai and Bangalore has already several key strengths in terms of availability of industries, skilled manpower and other basic infrastructure. Such a corridor can capitalise on the strength of Chennai and Bangalore. The international airports in Chennai and Bangalore and the two major sea ports [Chennai and Ennore] in Chennai can further contribute to the growth of this corridor.” Asked about benefits of such a corridor, Industries Secretary Sakthikanta Das said it would benefit Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Strengths of Bangalore and its neighbourhood in information technology, and that of Chennai and its nearby areas in automobile technology, manufacturing and electronics would attract more investments to the region. The corridor would also enable development of the neighbourhood within a radius of about 20 to 25 km. interesting idea. but real bad timing.
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BLR-MAA Greenfield Expressway
tsubba - 23 August, 2008 - 23:56
Bangalore-Chennai Greenfield Expressway Deccan Herald Meanwhile, the City is in store for another mega project: a 350-km greenfield expressway between Bangalore and Chennai. Muniyappa said the alignment work for the expressway by consultants deploying satellite imagery is on and the process will be completed by December this year. The feasibility report will be prepared thereafter. A detailed project report on the number of lanes and its cost will be worked out after the alignment is finalised, he said. Muniyappa said the Bangalore-Chennai expressway is one of the four expressway projects approved by the Union Cabinet. The projects will be be taken up on public-private-partnership model, he said. NHAI officials said the cost of building a km expressway is expected to be around Rs 15 crore. Also From The Hindu The proposed expressways will be designed for travelling on high speed of 120 km an hour and it would cost approximately Rs. 15 crore to Rs. 16 crore to build one kilometre of the expressway, said NHAI Chairman N. Gokulram. However, the work on expressway could commence only by the end of 2009 or during early 2010 depending upon the feasibility study once the alignments were finalised. It would take about four to five months to conduct the feasibility study. ------------------------------ Its basically an expressway for TN. Doesnt do much for BLR/KA. Unless ofcourse the north loop of PRR between Tumkur Rd - Hosur is a part of it.
megalomania
murali772 - 24 August, 2008 - 06:15
There already exists a fairly good highway between Chennai and Bangalore, some stretches of which are tolled. All it calls for removing the few bottlenecks, taking up the requisite upgrading, and implementing strict monitoring.
Ministers, both Central and sate, seem to think that the only way to push up their stock is by announcing more and more projects.
Muralidhar Rao
Too much money?
s_yajaman - 24 August, 2008 - 10:20
I really wonder where these people park their brains when they make these announcements! Rs.15 crore/km * 360km = Rs.5400 crores at today's rates. By the time this gets done it will probably be Rs.7500 crores.
Would it have not been better to quadruple the lines between Bangalore and Madras and run high speed trains that cover the distance in about 3 hrs?
The Delhi-Bombay corridor has some big cities along the way that will provide skilled labour, etc - Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Surat. How does the Bangalore-Madras corridor compare?
If plans were horses, Indians would have most of the equestrian events in the Olympics :).
Srivathsa
but like a true bangalorean you are thinking about actually travelling between bengaluru-chennai. If seen from Mount Road, this is an infrastructure project that will open up an industrial corridor in North TN. TR Baalu has the ball and he is running with it. Nothing wrong, i guess politically. ' murali sir, yes right, apparently they are unable to finish the stretch between sriperumbudur and chennai city that is the bottleneck.
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