TNSHA cancels tenders for Cheyyar highway corridor

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu State Highways Authority (TNSHA) has scrapped the tender for the proposed 43.4-km, 4-lane highway linking the Chennai Peripheral Ring Road with the proposed Cheyyar SIPCOT industrial corridor.

In separate corrigenda, TNSHA annulled the tenders floated on March 10 for all three packages of the project. It did not elaborate on the reasons or indicate when fresh bids would be invited.

The proposed greenfield corridor, to be developed under the public-private partnership model using the hybrid annuity mode, was planned as an extension of the Oragadam-Cheyyar industrial corridor.

The highway would originate at the under-construction Chennai Peripheral Ring Road at Valayankaranai and terminate at Manampathy on the Kancheepuram-Vandavasi State Highway.