The Centre has given approval for giving status of national highways to Gurgaon–Pataudi–Rewari road (52 km) and Patiala–Pehowa–Kurukshetra–ladwa–Yamuna Nagar (120 Km) road.
Besides, the Union Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways has decided to provide financial aid of Rs 100 crore through Central Road Fund to the State Government, said Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Thursday.
A decision in this regard was taken in a meeting of Haryana Chief Minister held in New Delhi with Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari to discuss various road projects related to the State.
The Chief Minister said that Gadkari would lay the foundation stone of four laning of Jind-Punjab Border Section (NH-71) on September 11. On the same day, he would start the work of various projects including construction of flyover and underpass at Hero Honda Chowk and improvement of existing Junctions of IFFCO Chowk, Signature Tower and Rajiv Chowk on Delhi – Gurgaon NH 8 in Gurgaon.
During the meeting, the issues regarding improvement of NH-248A (Gurgaon-Alwar) and construction of U-turn facility in front of Ambience Mall were thoroughly discussed. Also, permission regarding construction of missing links from Ambience Mall to
Mehrauli Road and Meharuli Road to NH-8 was granted in the meeting.
The Union Minister has asked the State Government to provide action plan for construction of flyover at Bilaspur Junction so that further action in this regard could be taken.
The Chief Minister said that the State Government has already sent the estimate for construction of Pinjore bye pass on NH 21A, construction of Sohna bye pass and Rai Malikpur–Narnaul–Bhiwani road and the Union Ministry has assured to take timely action on them.
He said that the Union Minister has given approval for more than one and a half dozen projects and has also issued directions to the concerned officials to send estimates and DPRs of the projects with immediate effect.