The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Harish Rawat inaugurated the Balliwala flyover on Monday.
On the occasion, the CM declared that the flyover would be named after freedom-fighter Sridev Suman.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony he said that the State Government aims to make Dehradun a free traffic flowing city. He said that the city is now taking the shape of a metropolis and there is an urgent need to increase facilities here.
Rawat said that works like flyovers at Rispana, Bhandaribagh, underpasses at Clock tower and Gandhi Park and over bridge at Mohkampur are to be done.
He called upon the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun to work as partner in the progress of the State Capital.
Rawat said that the regularisation of slum areas act is brought with an aim of development of the city.
He said the Government would take MDDA and Municipal Corporation along to prepare a work plan of development of the city.
The CM said that an alternate transport plan for the city involving metro or mono rail would be developed in Dehradun.
He said that the people of the area faced many hardships during the long period of construction of the flyover.
Rawat clarified that the flyover was inaugurated without service lane so that space is made available for construction activity of service lane once traffic moves on the flyover.
The CM ordered the officials to complete construction of service lane soon and increase the height of the railing of the flyovers in view of the security.
The work on Balliwala flyover was started on September 1, 2013. The task of constructing 725 meter long structure handed over to Engineering Project India limited (EPIl) EPIl which jumped many deadlines and invited many controversies on its design, land acquisition and compensation. The total cost of the project is `40.42 Crores.
The Forest minister Dinesh Agarwal, Dehradun Mayor Vinod Chamoli, MlAs Harbans Kapoor and Rajkumar were present on the occasion.