Meeting of Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das with Secretary of Road Transport and Highways Ministry Prashant Mishra on Monday in Delhi brought a big relief to the people of Jharkhand. The Centre has given a ‘go ahead’ to road projects worth Rs5,000 core for various road projects across the State.
It was also decided in the meeting that a review meeting of ongoing road projects in the State will be carried out in every three months. The four lane works on National Highway-23 & 75 will be done by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) now onwards. Under this project, four lane works will be done from Ranchi to doorsteps of Bedo on NH-23 and Ranchi to Bijupada on NH-75 at a cost of Rs852 crore.
Apart from this, Deoghar-Basukinath road has also been decided to turn into four lanes, which will be done by NHAI. The Ministry has also agreed to allot the construction work of Barhi to Hazaribagh by the end of this month. To be allotted soon is four lanes works of Mahulia to Bahragoda on MH-33 and after Bahragoda on NH-6 has also been decided to be done through NHAI.
The CM also discussed about the plans of six lanes works of Govindpur-Chas boarder and Aurangabad-Barwadda stretch with the road transport secretary. It was informed in the meeting that a total of Rs180 croe out of Rs500 crore has already been sanctioned for land acquisition for plans in Giridih, Hazaribagh and Dhanbad. Officials present in the meeting told that the annual plan of Rs688 crore has been accepted by the Centre. Development works on Ranchi-Jamshedpur road also remained a point of discussion in the meeting.