Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought details of the progress of the four-laning of Muzaffarnagar-Haridwar national highway and Prime Minster housing scheme through video conferencing with the chief secretaries of the states on Wednesday. Notably, 80 kilometer long Muzaffarnagar-Haridwar national highway is being converted into a four lane road at the cost of Rs 1563 crore with 479.70 hectare land being used for the purpose.
CS Uttarakhand apprised the PM that 67 percent progress having been made of the four- laning works, things would be completed by March 2018. He said that works in the villages like Atmalpur, Bahedi, Rajputana and Bijhauli which were held up for some time have now resumed after the administration intervened. While the State Government has given permission for soil, RBM, concrete mixing plant one each in Dehradun and Hardiwar permission would be given for the hot mix plant any time between September and December, CS said.
CS also apprised the PM of the step taken by the administration to shift a mosque. While the state government would give Rs 6 lakh to the mosque committee Rs 38.17 lakh would be given for relocation of the mosque in Bahedi village, he informed.
As to the PM’s query regarding the PM housing project, CS said that under affordable housing project (AHP), 75000 houses are required to be built in the state. 70, 000 of such houses would be built by 2020- 18000 in 2017-18, 26000 in 2018-19 and 26000 in 2019-20. Under BlC, the State Government will construct 5000 houses by the end of this year. He also said that three out of five advisories of the Union Government have been implemented in the state with the remaining two being done by this month.
During video conferencing, CS was assisted among others by additional chief secretary Omprakash, secretary housing Amit Negi, secretary revenue Harbans Singh Chugh and Secretary urban development Radhika Jha, director urban development Navneet Pandey and additional secretary Housing Vinod Kumar Suman among others.