BETL: Phew! Work on fast track

Phew! Work on fast track
Here is a monthly update on Bangalore’s four major infrastructure projects
The Times of India

Bangalore: All those aggrieved women working in Electronics City, who met the chief minister recently and the deputy chief minister on Tuesday, looked to be at their wits’ end. But they can look forward to some relief on Hosur Road soon.
First, rapid work is on to complete the service roads and widen the main carriageway. That’s expected to be completed by January. “And once that’s done, there would be a broader road to commute than there is now,” says an official of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which has undertaken the Hosur Road elevated expressway project. He says a portion of the road would be blocked off to build the expressway pillars, but the commutable road would still be broader than now.
The other relief is coming in the form of diversion of heavy vehicles at the Attibele junction.
The PWD has promised to complete the road connecting Attibele to Sarjapur Road by January. About 6 km of that 25-km road remains to be done. And once that’s done, heavy vehicles will be compelled to take that road and not clog the stretch from Attibele to the Silk Board junction.
The expressway work itself is said to be on track, to be completed by July 2008. Work on piers (pillars) has begun at three locations. Soma Enterprise, one of the three companies implementing the project, said it had just imported a piling rig from Italy for this work.
On November 2, the project promoters announced the financial closure of the project, with Rs 600 crore of debt being raised from a consortium of banks, led by Canara Bank.
HOSUR RD EXPRESSWAY
Stage of work Service roads: 10 km to be done, 6 km under progress. Expected to be completed by January Erection of drains: 7.5 km done. Expected to be fully completed by January Elevated expressway: Pier construction has just started