As regards the highway expansion project between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the NGT order to the extent it required the NHAI to first procure the Environmental Clearance from the Union MoEF, change the alignment to avoid loss to water bodies and construct a flyover for the entire stretch of the reserved forest, on account of which the project to widen NH-844 stood halted. Issuing notice on the NHAI's appeal against the October 9, 2019 order of the NGT and subsequent dismissal of its review on June 16, the bench headed by Justice Rohinton Nariman stayed the impugned NGT order in so far as it goes beyond the assurance given by the NHAI before the Madras High Court that all the suggestions given by Public Works Department, Tamil Nadu, will be accepted and the highway will be laid, in accordance with the suggestions of the Government of Tamil Nadu.