A high-level committee headed by Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath on Wednesday cleared a Rs. 2,792-crore road project under the Karnataka State Highway Improvement Project.
Addressing presspersons here, Minister for Public Works C.M. Udasi said the State highways would be developed in different parts of the State under the project and Rs. 800 crore would be spent before end of 2011-12.
A sum of Rs. 2,792 crore would be spent to develop 7,254 km of highway roads in the State, he said.
The department would upgrade 4,132 km of major district roads spending Rs. 2,192 crore.
A total of 3,221 km would be asphalted at an estimated expenditure of Rs. 19.36 lakh a kilometre, he said.
All potholes would be filled by December-end for which Rs. 150 crore had been released, he said.
Referring to the damaged Shiradi Ghat stretch between Sakleshpur and Mangalore (NH 48), the Minister alleged the Union Government was not cooperating with the State to repair the road.
