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Capt meets Gadkari, seeks early clearance of ring roads in Punjab cities

NEW DELHI: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has sought early clearance of ring roads around the state’s major cities urging the Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways , Nitin Gadkari, to immediately release the third installment of GoI grant.

Capt meets Gadkari, seeks early clearance of ring roads in Punjab cities

Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh meets Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal



New Delhi, June 27

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has sought early clearance of ring roads around the state’s major cities, while urging the Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Nitin Gadkari, to immediately release the third installment of GoI grant of Rs.3.72 crore for Mohali Hitech Metal Cluster and implementation of SFURTI in Wood Inlay Cluster, Hoshiarpur.

The Chief Minister called upon Nitin Gadkari here on Thursday afternoon to press for his intervention to clear the state’s pending projects/approvals under his department. He invited the Union Minister to visit Punjab to help revive the  MSMEs in the state.

Gadkari assured Captain Amarinder that all Punjab related issues pending with his ministries would be looked into and addressed at the earliest. He also assured of full support and cooperation to the state government in pursuance of their road infrastructure development projects, besides various initiatives in the field of MSMEs.

According to an official spokesperson, Captain Amarinder informed the Union Minister that state government had already conveyed its consent to bear 50% cost of land acquisition for construction of Ring Roads around major cities of Mohali/Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Patiala, Sangrur and Bathinda, in line with the MORT&H guidelines of Bharatmala “build including Ring Road or Bypass, which was not a part of the Bharatmala shelf of Projects. 

The Chief Minister said the Ministry had already approved the ring road around Bathinda. The Chief Minister also sought the Union Ministry’s immediate approval of funds to the tune of Rs. 636.45 lakh for appointment of technical consultant for the ring roads project to work out the alignments needed for the roads.

Captain Amarinder also urged Gadkari to facilitate expeditious clearance of the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway project, for which Government of India has already approved a plan for constructing 800 Km of Expressways under Bharatmala Scheme Phase-I. 

The Chief Minister also impressed upon the Union Minister the need for immediate declaration of National Highway and approval to four laning of Patiala-Sirhind-Morinda road, which the Union Ministry was pressing for development as a Greenfield project while the state wanted it to be a brownfield project. 

Captain Amarinder requested the Minister to declare Banga-Garhshankar-Anandpur Sahib-Naina Devi Road as a National Highways project in the current fiscal. He pointed out that this demand has also been raised by the Jathedar of Takhat Sri Keshgarh Sahib as the road in question was in extremely bad shape. 

Captain Amarinder impressed upon Union Minister the need to develop Kharar-Banur-Tepla road NH-205A as a four-lane highway, in view of the large Delhi bound interstate commercial traffic from Himachal Pradesh and Haryana passing this road. 

The Chief Minister also requested Nitin Gadkari to transfer the work of implementation of two lane projects (Gurdaspur-Dera Baba Nanak-Amritsar-Khemkharan-Arifke road), as well other Bharatmala projects, to the State PWD (B&R) as the department had well-trained competent National Highways Wing headed by a full time Chief Engineer with adequate and qualified staff.

This team had successfully implementing 4-laning of 620 Km of National Highways in the State, of which 550 Km had already been completed in a time-bound manner.

The Chief Minister requested Gadkari to issue necessary directions to concerned officials in NHAI to execute the incomplete structures/stretches, and also take up to repair deficiencies in maintenance without further delay. He said if the incomplete structures/stretches and deficiencies were not attended to immediately, in a time-bound manner, it would be appropriate to initiate action for termination of toll collection on this road.

Captain Amarinder invited Nitin Gadkari to visit Punjab to discuss the development of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in a meaningful and result oriented manner. He emphasized the need to promote agriculture based MSMEs in the state to ameliorate the economic lot of our farmers, who were reeling under a severe agrarian crisis. 

The Chief Minister said that under Micro & Small Enterprises Cluster Development Programme (MSE-CDP) of the GOI, due to increase in cost of setting up of Common Facility Centres, the grant should be increased to Rs. 20 crores per CFC and also the mandatory 10% share of State Govt. may not be insisted upon.   

The existing District Industries Centers (DIC) building may be provided a grant of Rs.2.00 crores per building for strengthening, up-gradation and construction of  new buildings of DICs in the remaining 10 new districts, he added. 

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