PWD and Transport Minister Rajesh Munat on Thursday informed the Chhattisgarh Assembly that the four-laning of Raipur-Bilaspur National Highway would be completed by 2018.
Replying to Congress member Arun Vora during question hour, the Minister informed that the work of four-laning of the highway was taken up in 2016.
He said that the work involves four laning and also six laning of the sections of the highway and the land acquisition for the project is complete.
Munat said that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has taken up the project in three phases.
Replying to a separate query by Congress member Bhupesh Baghel, the Minister stated that using fly ash supplied by power plants is a priority with the State government for road construction.
“We are ensuring with NHAI that fly ash be used on a priority basis for construction of roads,” he said.
The Central Government has issued guidelines that states with sufficient availability of fly ash need to utilize them for road construction which Chhattisgarh doing the same in compliance with the guidelines, Munat said.