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  • Haryana CM takes train to join Gadkari to lay foundation stone for Rs 3,835 cr-project

    Haryana CM takes train to join Gadkari to lay foundation stone for Rs 3,835 cr-project

    Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday travelled by Jan Shatabdi Express train from Chandigarh to Sonipat where Union Road, Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari will be inaugurating 11 flyovers on the eight-lane national highway from Delhi to Panipat.

    The Chief Minister’s Office told IANS that the Chief Minister is a frequent traveller in a train. “Even he prefers to travel by train to his hometown Karnal from Chandigarh,” an official said.

    Regarding Gadkari’s daylong visit to the state on Tuesday, the official said besides the inauguration of 11 flyovers part of a 24-km long project constructed with an outlay Rs 900 crore, he would lay the foundation stone of four national highway projects in Sonipat, Karnal and Ambala at a cost of Rs 3,835 crore.

    Gadkari will also lay the foundation stone for the construction work of Karnal Green Field Six-Lane Ring Road project at Kutail village in Karnal district.

    The total length of this project is 35 km and it will cost about Rs 1,700 crore. Similarly, the Union Minister will lay the foundation stone for the construction work of Ambala Green Field Six Lane Ring Road project at Jandli village in Ambala district.

    The total length of this project is 23 km and it will cost a total of Rs 1,100 crore.

    A day earlier Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said the government is strengthening the road network. These major road projects will change the picture of infrastructure in the state and will also give a new direction to the development of industries.

    Along with Haryana, the commuters of Punjab, Himachal, Jammu and Kashmir passing through the Delhi-Panipat corridor will be benefitted.

    Similarly, the construction of Ambala and Karnal Ring Road will provide relief to the local people from the traffic congestion in the city in both the districts.

  • Odisha CM writes to Gadkari, seeks NH 55 completion

    Odisha CM writes to Gadkari, seeks NH 55 completion

    BHUBANESWAR: Concerned over the inordinate delay in the completion of the Cuttack-Angul-Sambalpur section of NH 55, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has sought the intervention of Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari for early completion of the important highway project.

    Writing a letter to the Union minister, he said, it is a matter of great concern that the rehabilitation and upgradation of the 265-km highway to a four-lane carriageway being carried out by NHAI since 2017 is yet to be completed even after more than five years.

    “NH 55 serves as a lifeline to millions of people of western Odisha. Haphazard construction activities and the miserable plight of the road causes frequent accidents leading to the loss of human lives. As many as 399 accidents have taken place causing 196 fatalities during the last two years. There is public agitation and discontentment among people for inordinate delay in completion of the road work,” Naveen pointed out.

    The chief minister said the concern of the state government on this count has been communicated to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways earlier and despite regular review of the progress of the project with the regional authorities of NHAI, no satisfactory outcome is visible.He urged Gadkari to intervene in the matter for early completion of the project, which will go a long way in redressing the pending demand of people of the state.

    On March 6, The New Indian Express had published a detailed report titled ‘From Cuttack to Sambalpur, the unending NH 55 pain’ highlighting the factors behind inordinate delay in completion of the highway expansion work. Two senior NHAI officials, including a project director (technical), were suspended over irregularities and tardy progress of the construction work.

    One of the most significant highways of Odisha, the NH 55 has long been a crucial connection between coastal, central and western regions of the state. Completed, the highway would link industrial corridors with the ports by providing an uninterrupted connectivity and accelerating movement of mining and industrial traffic.

    Started in three phases between March 2017 and March 2018 at a cost of Rs 2,367 crore, the project is incomplete due to delay in completion of bridges, vehicle underpasses (VUPs) and animal underpasses (AUPs). The project estimate has almost doubled at Rs 4,482 crore after five years but only about 60 per cent work has been completed so far.

    The project taken up on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode was delayed as the construction agency Hyderabad-based Gayatri Projects Ltd went into a severe financial crisis a year after it bagged the contracts.