Gadkari announces list of road development projects

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways (MoRTH), Government of India, approved several road widening and upgradation projects in northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, and Nagaland. Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road, Transport and Highways, Government of India, on Saturday, April 3, announced various road development projects, including rehabilitation, widening, and development of new roads in the states of Bihar, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and northeast India.

A statement released by Gadkari on his twitter handle said that in Bihar, rehabilitation and widening work for two lane of existing national highway between Bhagalpur-Kahalgaon-Mirzachowki at a cost of Rs 566.15 crore, and rehabilitation and widening work for national highway between Munger-Sultanganj-Bhagalpur-Mirzachowki for Rs 477.54 crore, has been approved by the Ministry. For Punjab, a centrally-sponsored and funded scheme with budget of Rs 1,229.38 crore under the Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-1 has been approved. According to Gadkari, this is to include development of six-lane greenfield highway between Amritsar and Bathinda, and six lane Jalandhar Bypass from Kahiwan to Kang Sahbu for Rs 1,754.84 crore.

MoRTH also approved development of a six-lane Thatchur highway between Veera Kaveri Rajapuram and Pondavakkam on hybrid annuity mode under Bharatmala Pariyojana in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, at the cost of Rs 1,102.63 crore. Additionally, it approved several road widening and upgradation projects in the northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, and Nagaland. Gadkari informed that the upgradation to 2 lanes with paved shoulders of a section of Dulte- Kwalkulh road (International corridor) of NH-6 in the state of Mizoram under Bharatmala Pariyojana has also been approved with a budget of Rs 374.39 Crore