111-kilometer (66-mile) expressway, of 790-million-dollar value, linking Bangalore and Mysore town muddling through a legal, bureaucratic and political maze since first conceived.

BANGALORE, India (AFP) - Entrepreneur Ashok Kheny has been shuttling between his adopted US home and India for 12 years to build a project he hopes will bring pride to his country.

In those years, he has fought 336 cases in the Karnataka state high court and three in the Supreme Court over the 111-kilometer (66-mile) expressway he is constructing to link Bangalore and Mysore town.

He won all the cases but does not know if or when he will complete the 32.5-billion-rupee (790-million-dollar) project, which has been muddling through a legal, bureaucratic and political maze since first conceived.

Kheny, who made a fortune building fiber-optic cable networks in the US where he migrated in 1972, said he had expected difficulties but not of such magnitude.

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Posted by dcjaya at August 28, 2007 7:45 PM