With 90 per cent of land acquisition complete, work on the 262-km-long Bengaluru-Chennai Expressway (BCE) is expected to commence this year. Tenders for the concessionaire under the Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM) are likely to be called in couple of month as per the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). Since the eight-lane road runs through Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, work was distributed among project directors in the respective States. The stretch begins at Hosekote in Karnataka and covers a distance of 75.64 km within the State. It will end at Sriperumbudur, from where it will be connected with Chennai Outer Ring Road (CORR) at Poonamallee via NH 4 as an elevated road that would be at second level.