Rs 152 crore allocated for bypass roads

CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday sanctioned Rs 152.78 crore for acquiring lands for laying by-pass roads for 11 towns in Tamil Nadu.The fund allocation for acquisition of lands is as follows: Tenkasi (6 km by-pass road — Rs 9.70 crore), Sankarankoil (6.89 km road — Rs 17.51 crore), Ambasamudram (7 km road — Rs 19.84 crore), Mudukulathur (4 km — Rs 5.16 crore), Bhavani Nagar (11 km — Rs 5.20 crore), Namakkal (22.66 km — Rs 7.78 crore), Tiruchengode (13.6 km — Rs 4.27 crore), Cuddalore (19.5 km — Rs 27.72 crore), Arcot (2.80 km — Rs 1.46 crore), Tiruppathur (11 km  —Rs 6.19 crore), Tiruvannamalai (8.20 km — Rs 6.23 crore) and Rs 41.66 crore for other expenditure in this regard. As a result of these new by-pass roads, traffic congestion along these towns will come down considerably and the number of accidents will also come down, an official release here said.