The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is hopeful of completing the New six-lane bridge across Phalguni at Kuloor before the onset of the 2026 monsoon. The authority has planned the new bridge across Phalguni (Gurupura) river on Kanniyakumari-Panvel National Highway 66 as a part of widening of the B.C. Road-Surathkal Port Connectivity Road into six lanes. The work was awarded to Pune-based M/s Shinde Developers Pvt. Ltd., at a cost of ₹56 crore and the actual work commenced on April 12, 2021. Though the new bridge was expected to be completed by October 2022, the project was delayed for over three years.
Once the new six-lane bridge is commissioned, the NHAI will shut the old bridge for vehicular traffic. Utility lines, including water and power, presently passing on the existing bridge, would be shifted on the closed bridge.
