Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday said ludhiana will have two road projects costing Rs 1,238 crore which will ease traffic congestion in the industrial city.
Badal said that NHAI will undertake both projects which included 4 laning elevated road in ludhiana city from Samrala chowk to MC limits ludhiana on NH-95 and 4-lane partial access controlled laddowal bypass linking NH-95 with NH-1 via laddowal seed farm.
He said 12.951 km elevated road would be augmented at a cost of Rs 867.72 crore and laddowal bypass having length of 17.041 km costing Rs 370.17 crore would be constructed on design, build, operate and transfer (DBOT annuity or hybrid annuity) basis.
To provide relief to the inhabitants of ludhiana as well as developing the industrial hub as a smart city, the Deputy CM said that he had impressed upon union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari in the recent meeting to sanction both the projects on priority and he has done the same.
He said the 4/6-laning of Chandigarh-Kharar-ludhiana section of NH-95 had already been approved and work has been started.
He emphasized that Punjab is the only state where every village, town and city is connected through road network and state has the maximum density of roads in the country.
Badal said that state government is paying special attention to the inclusive development of state and very soon the roads across the state would be transformed into 4-6 lane expressways. He also said the main road from SAS Nagar to Kharar would be given the elevated shape besides work on major expressways connecting with corporation towns with an investment of about Rs 20, 000 crore would be launched soon.