Himachal Pradesh PWD Minister Vikramaditya Singh Friday met Union Minister for Highway Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari in Delhi and took up numerous growth points pertaining to the state.
Vikramaditya Singh urged Nitin Gadkari for the development of an alternate highway from Ghatasni, Shilha-Badhani-Bhubujot-Kullu with a tunnel at Bhubujot, which would scale back a distance of 40 km on Nationwide Freeway 144. Singh stated this is essential from the tourism viewpoint moreover its strategic significance, and would facilitate vacationers visiting the hill state’s Kullu district.
He additionally urged Gadkari to offer approval for the development of a Rs 125.57 crore double-lane bridge over the River Beas between Basantipattan and Kheri connecting Kangra and Hamirpur districts on precedence underneath the Bharat Setu Yojna. Singh stated Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu additionally raised this concern with the Union Minister throughout his earlier assembly.
He additionally requested the development of a Rs 19.09 crore 110-metre span single-lane metal truss motorable bridge over the Beas Pandoh on the Pandoh-Shiva Highway within the Mandi district.
On his half, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari assured Singh of all doable help to the state.
Singh thanked Gadkari for sanctioning Rs 350 crore underneath the Central Highway and Infrastructure Fund (CRIF), which he stated will go a great distance in bettering highway connectivity and enhancing the state’s development. He additionally thanked for the help prolonged by the Union minister for offering exemption to ropeway initiatives from forest clearances by the Union Ministry of Atmosphere, Forest & Local weather Change (MoEFCC).
Just lately, CM Sukhu urged Nitin Gadkari to offer an exemption to the state authorities from forest clearances by MOEFCC for the ropeway initiatives within the state. The state authorities’s request was accepted final month.
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