Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar Khattar takes up pending National Highway projects with Nitin Gadkari

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 26

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today met Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari during his stay at Manali and discussed 11 projects worth Rs 6,393.32 crore with regard to development of national highways in Haryana.

An official spokesperson said among the projects taken up by Khattar with the Union Minister were declaration of Pehowa-Kurukshetra road up to National Highway-44 as national highway (NH), construction of underpass on Jalandhar-Panipat road (NH-44) near Kamboopura (Karnal), construction of underpass on Panchkula- Yamunanagar NH near Sector 26-27 of Panchkula, underpasses at Bilaspur chowk and Bawal chowk on NH-48 and construction of interchange on Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE) to link Palwal-Aligarh NH in Palwal district.

Service road along Delhi-Vadodara Expressway for connecting Nuh-Mandkola-Palwal road on the Western Peripheral Expressway (WPE), construction of new national highway from Faridabad bypass and entry at EPE interchange near Chainsa village, East-West Expressway from Dabwali to Panipat and construction of service road along Rohtak bypass were some of the other projects taken up by the Chief Minister with Gadkari.