National Highway 275 (NH-275), also commonly referred to as Bengaluru–Mysuru access-controlled Expressway, part of the Bengaluru–Mangaluru Economic Corridor (EC-34), is a national highway that starts from

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and goes through

Mysuru Mysore ( ), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It is the headquarters of Mysore district and Mysore division. As the traditional seat of the Wadiyar dynasty, the city functioned as the capital of the ...

as a 6-lane expressway of , and again as 4-lane till Bilikere (towards

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), and ends at

Bantwal Bantwal () is a city and taluk centre in Dakshina Kannada Districts of Karnataka, district, Karnataka, India, and the headquarters of Bantwal taluk. It is located East of Mangalore, Mangalore city center. BC Road-Kaikamba of Bantwal is one of ...

. This highway connects the coastal city of

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to Bengaluru. It is also a bypass route for the National Highway 75 (NH-75). The Bengaluru to Mysuru section of this highway was upgraded from 4 to 10 lanes, out of which the 6-lane section is the main elevated access-controlled carriageway and the other 2-lane section on both ends of the carriageway are service roads. It claims to reduce the travel time between Bengaluru and Mysuru from 3 hours to 75 minutes.

Bengaluru-Mysuru section

The Bengaluru–Mysuru access-controlled Expressway is a long, 10-lane, tolled elevated expressway. It has been built at a cost of ₹ 8,000 crore and was developed in two phases. Phase-1 of length connecting Bengaluru and Nidaghatta, and Phase-2 of connecting Nidaghatta and Mysuru. The

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for the project was laid in March 2018.

Status updates

* Mar 2018: Foundation stone laid for the project. * Apr 2018: Contract awarded for Phase-1 to

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-based Dilip Buildcon Limited. * Mar 2019: Civil work which got stuck due to land acquisition issues to start by April 2019. * Jul 2020: Work on Phase-1 started in May 2019 and work on Phase-2 started in Dec 2019. Both phase are seeing delay due to

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related problems, which caused labour shortages and several delays in work. It may see the deadline of January 2022; to get further delayed. *Dec 2021: Work on Phase-1 completed up to 83% and Phase II completed up to 73%. The expressway is expected to become operational by October 2022. *Feb 2023: The expressway is at its final stages of construction work, and will be inaugurated by

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on 11 March 2023. *March 2023: The expressway section was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 12 March 2023.

References

External links

NH 275 on OpenStreetMap
{{IND NH75 sr National highways of India 81 Transport in Bengaluru Transport in Mysore

Bengaluru-Mysuru section

Status updates

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