Mysore/Mysuru, March 11 -- Social Welfare Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa, also the Minister in-charge of Mysuru district, clarified the Congress-led UPA-2's role in enhancing road infrastructure in the State. Serving as the Public Works Minister from 2013 to 2018 in the previous Congress regime, Mahadevappa highlighted his and CM Siddaramaiah's efforts in proposing the upgrade of State Highways to National Highways to the UPA-2 Government.

A DPR was prepared, leading to the sanction, declaration and notification of 1,882 km of State Highways as National Highways in Karnataka by late Oscar Fernandes, the then Minister for Surface Transport and Highways in the UPA-2 Government.

Despite the end of the UPA-2 regime in 2014, Mahadevappa and S...