Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat met the Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi on Wednesday regarding the issue of improvement in the condition of the State’s road network.
The Chief Minister expressed gratitude to the minister for infrastructural development related efforts being made for developing roads of the Char Dham
Yatra circuit into roads not damaged in different weather conditions.
Rawat also expressed thankfulness to Gadkari for facilitating the provisino9 of Central Road Fund (CRF) and the allotment of necessary funds for six bridges in the State, while also requesting the Union Minister to accord necessary approval for some more bridges in the interests of Uttarakhand and its people.
A proposal of the detailed plan for these bridges will be made available to the Road Transport ministry within a period of one week, added the Chief Minister.
While discussing aspects with the Union Minister, the Chief Minister said that various roads in the State are in desperate need of improvement.
The Chief Minister further spoke about facilitating swift paced execution of the works needed to achieve the desired level of development of the national highway number 58 from Rudraprayag to Badrinath, stretch of the national highway number 108 from Dharasu to Gangotri, stretch of the national highway number 123 from Herbertpur to Badkot, national highway number 94 from Dharasu to Fulchatti, national highway number 109 from Rudraprayag to Gaurikund, national highway number 125 from Tanakpur Pithoragarh and the main roads linked to these.
The large number of tourists and pilgrims from various parts of the nation and foreign countries who arrive in Uttarakhand have to travel in the state using these roads.
The lack of improvement in the condition of these roads exerts a negative impact on the image of Uttarakhand, said the Chief Minister.
He also said that the condition of roads linking Uttar Pradesh to Uttarakhand was not in a desirable State.
For many years now, these roads including the Saharanpur-Dehradun, Saharanpur-Roorkee-Haridwar, Najibabad-Kotdwar, Rampur-Rudrapur, Pilibhit-Tanakpur, Bahedi-Kiccha, Moradabad-Kashipur to Thakurdwara and Moradabad-Kashipur to Aligarh have been in a bad state, said Rawat.