Industrial corridor project report by year end

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Chennai: The Chennai-Bengaluru industrial corridor project will soon become a reality as the project report is expected to be ready by this year-end, T.K.A. Nair, Prime Minister advisor said. The Centre had announced the project this year.
Speaking to reporters after inaugurating a low-cost model house constructed by researchers at IIT Madras using glass fibre reinforced gypsum, Nair said, “Chennai-Bengaluru industrial corridor is going to be a reality soon in the sense that the first step for making a comprehensive integrated project has now started. This was one of the points that were agreed upon by the Prime Ministers of India and Japan when they met last month.
“By the end of this year, the project report should be ready. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will prepare the report and the technical study is being funded by the Japanese government, after which the work will start,” he said.
Pointing out that the first phase of the project would connect Chennai with Bengaluru, Nair said that in the next phase it would get extended to Andhra Pradesh. “We have had discussions with Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh governments,” he said.