[2][3] The junction used to be a roundabout with a statue of the Indian prime ministerJawaharlal Nehru.

A cloverleaf grade separator was constructed as part of the NHDP to ease traffic congestion at the junction.

The structure was built at an estimated project cost of ₹486 crore (US$56 million) with an initial deadline of March 2007.

It is the first of three grade separators being built on the Inner Ring Road to improve connectivity between the various National Highways radiating from the city, the other two being the one on Koyambedu junction (NH 4) near the Chennai Mofussil Bus Terminus and the one at Padi Junction (NH 205).

It has a bus terminal where MTC and out- station buses can halt to pick up and drop passengers, kids play area, food court, open air theater, retail shops, office space, washrooms, vehicular parking facility, kiosks, ATMs and facilities for horticulture spread across an area of 54,400 sqm.