Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 12 - State Public Works Minister Mons Joseph Wednesday said a feasibility study would be conducted shortly for a highway that will connect the northern-most part of the state to its southern tip.

A central agency will be engaged to conduct the feasibility study, Joseph told reporters after presenting the state's first-ever Road Development Policy report to Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan.

Earlier, the state had a plan to build an expressway connecting the southern and northern tips of the state, which was shelved after an expert committee found that the project was not feasible.

The Rs.10,000-crore expressway project was first mooted by the Left Front government led by E.K. Nayanar in 1996-2001. It was shelved by the succeeding Congress government, then headed by India's current defence minister A.