New Delhi: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha met I.K. Pandey, Director General (Road Development), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in New Delhi, to get the approval for the proposal to expand four Railway Under Bridges (RUBs) of Mysuru Ring Road. 

Four RUBs have to be constructed along the 41.5 kilometre Outer Ring Road that has been declared as National Highway-275K. A proposal has been sent to the NHAI for approval and the total estimated cost of the RUBs is Rs. 70.58 crore. 

The RUBs have been proposed to be constructed at 5.460 km of NH 275K (Outer Ring Road) with an estimated cost of Rs. 26.98 crore, at 7.060 km with an estimated cost of Rs. 8.90 crore, at 7.860 km with an estimated cost of Rs. 24.92 crore and at 28.585 km of the Outer Ring Road with an estimated cost of Rs. 9.78 crore. 

The works will be undertaken through box-pushing method.

Pandey has conveyed to MP Pratap Simha that this work will be taken up during this financial year itself.