In-charge Deputy Commissioner Prabhakar Sharma has banned the movement of vehicles on the stretch between Padil Junction on NH 48 and railway crossing on Padil-Bajal road from Tuesday to facilitate the concreting of the stretch.

According to a press release, light motor vehicles can pass though the narrow stretch from Amar Alva bus stand on NH 48 to reach Mangalore junction railway station.

Heavy vehicles plying between Jalligudde, Bajal, Veeranagara and the city through NH-48 should take a diversion at Yekkur to reach the destination.