A public consultation meeting was held here on Tuesday on the proposed NH-55 construction and selection of bypasses to be spread across Jagatsinghpur and Cuttack districts.
District Collector Yamini Sarangi chaired the meeting accompanied by State Planning Board Vice Chairman Bishnu Das, MlAs Prashanta Muduli, Chiranjeeb Biswal, MPs Kulamani Samal, Ranjeeb Biswal, Municipality Chairman Biplaba Choudhury and the Zilla Parishad president, senior engineers from the Roads and Building department as well as engineers, architects and designers from the National Highway Authority.
Rakesh Kumar Choudhury from the consultancy company explained in
details about the proposed NH 55 construction and selection of six bypasses. According to Choudhury, the proposed road would be started from OMP Square in Cuttack and pass through Kandarpur, Jagatsinghpur, Erasama and will end at Nuagaon covering 94km in both Cuttack and Jagatsinghpur districts. As many as 15 km will be covered under Cuttack district and 78.800 km will be covered in Jagatsinghpur district. 113 acre Government land and 843 acre private land would be acquired.
The meeting took up land acquisition, compensation, traffic regulation, water discharge system and establishment of toll gates. The NH authorities replied that the compensation and rehabilitation to land losers would be provided according to land acquisition and rehabilitation norms.
