To solve the bilateral issues between the two neighbouring States, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal met his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow on Saturday and agreed to construct three bridges on River Yamuna.
Apart from this, it was also decided that both the states would construct the bridge connecting Hasanpur of Palwal and National Highway to Uttar Pradesh.
Both the chief ministers discussed wide range of bi-lateral issues concerning both the states in the field of revenue, irrigation, water resources, PWD (B&R) and agriculture in a meeting held at Lucknow.
Under the Dixit Award given on February 14, 1975, in the case of border of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, an important decision was taken to reconstruct the pillars which are missing from the spot through the Survey of India by March 31, 2020. An amount of about Rs 20 crores is estimated to be incurred on the work and both the States will bear this amount in 50:50 ratio.
Uttar Pradesh Government agreed to construct a bridge on Yamuna River between Faridabad and Greater Noida via Jasna-Manjhwali Atta Gujran and the land will be acquired this month, costing Rs 104 crore.
Uttar Pradesh also assured to construct a high-level bridge over the Yamuna River on Yamuna Nagar-Rador (State Highway-06) road to Nukur-Saharanpur (MDR-0-1472) road and for this, Uttar Pradesh would acquire four kanal of land.
It was also decided that the construction of the bridge connecting Palwal's Hasanpur and the National Highway with Uttar Pradesh would be constructed at its own level and not in the ratio of 50-50.
The issues related to irrigation and water resources were also discussed in detail in the meeting. To resolve these issues, it was decided to convene the next meeting in Agra in this month only.