Puttur: Shiradi Ghat is set to be closed to traffic from October 15 to facilitate the second phase of concreting the road; sources say that the work is expected to be completed by June next year.

The repairs will be taken up by GVR Infrastructure and the company has already stocked up materials; the second phase will be taken up for concreting 12 km of tar road from Addahole in Puttur. Officials say that the concrete road will be 8.5 meters wide.