The MoRTH has laid the foundation stone for three national highway projects worth Rs 15.57 billion in Kerala. The first project entails the construction of the four-lane, 18.6 km Thalassery-Mahe bypass stretch of National Highway (NH)-66 at an estimated cost of Rs 11.81 billion. The second project involves the construction of a four-lane, 0.78 km railway overbridge near Neeleshwaram town at an estimated cost of Rs 820 million. The third involves the widening of the 46.72 km Nattukal-Thanavu junction stretch to two-lane with paved shoulders, at an estimated cost of Rs 2.94 billion.