Mysuru, Oct. 10 -- Between Millennium Circle (LIC Circle) and Kempegowda Circle (Manipal Hospital Junction)

Narasimharaja MLA Tanveer Sait this morning opened a newly white-topped 1.7-km stretch of the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway, between Millennium Circle (LIC Circle) and Kempegowda Circle (Manipal Hospital Junction), for vehicular traffic.

He inaugurated the stretch by cutting a ribbon at Millennium Circle, a day ahead of the inauguration of the 11-day Mysuru Dasara tomorrow (Oct. 11).

The stretch passes St. Philomena's College, JSS Medical College and JSS Dental College before reaching Manipal Hospital Junction.

The Public Works Department (PWD) took up white-topping works on a 5.624-km stretch of the highway last month at an estimate...