Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway PM Modi launch today: now travel to Mysuru in just 1.5hours

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka today to inaugurate the Bengaluru-Nidaghatta-Mysuru expressway and will lay the foundation stone to projects worth around Rs 16,000 crore, Prime Minister’s Office has informed. Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway PM Modi launch today: now travel to Mysuru in just 1.5hours.

This will be PM Modi’s sixth visit to poll-bound Karnataka this year. Assembly elections in the Speaking about PM Modi’s schedule for today, at around 12 noons, he will dedicate and lay the foundation stones of key road projects in Mandya state are due in April-May. At around 3:15 pm, he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of various development initiatives in Hubbali-Dharwad, a statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office said.

The rapid pace of development of infrastructure projects has been a testament to the vision of the prime minister to ensure world-class connectivity across the country, the statement said. Prime Minister Modi will dedicate the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway to the nation. Earlier, PM Narendra Modi described the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway as an important connectivity project that will contribute to Karnataka’s growth trajectory.

The 118-km expressway, built at the cost of Rs 8,408 crore, will reduce travel time between Bengaluru and Mysuru from 3.5 hours to around 1.5 hours. The project involves six-laning of the Bengaluru-Nidaghatta-Mysuru section of NH-275.

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The expressway will act as a catalyst for socio-economic development in the region. The high-speed corridor is built in two separate phases, measuring 61 km between Nidaghatta and Mysore and 58 km between Bengaluru and Nidaghatta. The highway has elevated corridors that are 8 km long, 42 small bridges, 64 underpasses, 11 overpasses, four Road-Over-Bridges (ROBs), and five bypasses.