Gadkari lays stone of 8 highways

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, July 14

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari today inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for national highway projects worth Rs 20,027 crore in Haryana as part of the new economic corridor.

In a web-based function, during which three projects were inaugurated and foundation stones laid for eight more, he said the new economic corridor would ensure smooth connectivity from Haryana to other states. The 35.45-km 4-lane Rohna-Jhajjar section of NH 334-B (Rs 1,183 crore), 70-km 4-lane Punjab-Haryana border to Jind section of NH 71 (Rs 857 crore) and 85.36-km 2-lane Jind-Karnal highway on NH 709 (Rs 200 crore) were inaugurated.

Foundation stones were laid for eight projects worth over Rs 17,000 crore, including 227-km 6-lane access-controlled Greenfield Expressway from Ismailpur to Narnaul on NH 152D (Rs 8,650 crore), 46-km 4-lane Gurugram-Pataudi-Rewari section of NH 352W (Rs 1,524 crore) and 14.4-km 4-lane Rewari bypass (Rs 928 crore).

Gadkari said the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra highway via Jind and Delhi-Mumbai highway would also be beneficial for Haryana. He said there was no dearth of funds with the Centre for development.

Gadkari urged Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar to make separate schemes for farm MSMEs. Suggesting Haryana to make ethanol from rice, which the Centre could purchase, Gadkari said a five lakh crore ethanol economy could be created in the coming years. Expressing gratitude to Gadkari, Khattar sought his intervention in resolving the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal issue so that Haryana could get its legitimate share of river waters.

Inaugurated sans completion: MLA

Karnal: The Karnal-Jind NH 709-A widening project was inaugurated by Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday though it had not been completed. Construction of the road and drains was pending at various places. Assandh MLA Shamsher Singh Gogi said, “I have conveyed the issue to the Deputy Commissioner and demanded action against officials who have misguided the NHAI and Centre,” he said. DC Nishant Kumar Yadav said around 5 per cent work was pending and was going on at a good pace. He said it had been delayed due to encroachment near Jundla and Jalmana villages, which had been removed. TNS