Four check-posts on State’s border will be upgraded and ultra-modern facilities will be provided in the State, officials informed.
The posts will be computerised to check transport vehicles. They will be developed as integrated check posts at Paatekohra in district Rajnandgaon, Kamharpali in district Mahasamund, Chilfi in district Kabirdham (Kawardha) and Dhanwar Check-Post in district Balrampur-Ramanujganj.
Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Rajesh Munat added that these check posts will be computerised and uplinked with all the other posts. There will be transparency in the process and increase in handling the number of cases.
Efforts are on in upgrading and integrating the border check-posts by the Chhattisgarh State Roads Development Corporation. The Integrated Check-Posts will facilitate the transport vehicle owners. Over-loading will also be checked and also illegal operation of vehicles, he said.
It may be recalled that the ADB had been helping Chhattisgarh government upgrade about 916 kilometers of roads in the State.
The works include development of new road sections, two laning work, constructing and strengthening culverts and bridges, officials stated.
Notably, new stretches of rural roads are rapidly coming up in Chhattisgarh with massive funding support from ADB, officials stated.
The ADB has provided lending support to Chhattisgarh for projects undertaken under Prime Minister’s Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY).
The international funding agency had been helping to either construct or upgrade 31,000 kms of rural roads in the states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradsh, Odisha, West Bengal and Assam nationally, officials stated.
Notably, the Chhattisgarh Government has already started taking steps to even settle the forest land disputes under the Forest Protection Act 1980 as early as possible for accelerating the process of laying of roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) (Prime Minister's Rural Roads Project), officials stated.
A time-bound action plan has been chalked out for various departments to settle the issues relating to forest land expeditiously, officials stated.
The State Public Works Department (PWD) has completed construction of 14 key roads at the cost of nearly Rs 200 crore during the past more than 15 months, officials informed.
The government has already completed development of 6,279 roads measuring a total of 26,504 kms under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, officials informed.
As many as 8,533 settlements near the new main roads had been benefitted by the projects out of 10,560 identified as per the guidelines of the scheme, they informed.
State Panchayat and Rural Development officials informed that under the scheme, a total of 9461 settlements have been approved to be benefitted from the scheme in which a total of 6,279 roads had been completed.
Chief Minister Raman Singh had recently asked the Chhattisgarh Road Development Corporation (CGRDC) officials to lay a network of 808 kilometers roads at a cost of Rs 2179 crore in another 18 months time.
He directed officials to complete the laying of roads by May 2018, officials informed.
The Chief Minister also laid stress on completing the rural road connectivity projects so that the villagers can have smooth all-weather transport in the years to come.
Singh was reviewing the road development projects at the Mantralaya in Naya Raipur.
During the meeting, the Chief Minister ordered the inclusion of Dhamdha- Gandai- Salhetekri in Rajnandgaon district in the ongoing roads' network project. The 39-kilometer road will be laid at a cost of Rs 120 crore.
The officers gave a detailed presentation of the roads project being laid in the State.
Singh also called upon the senior officers to complete all the road projects by May 2018. The projects include Sakri-Ganiyari-Kota at a cost of Rs 73 crore (21.8 km) , Janjgir-Pamgarh roads at a cost of Rs 64 crore, Selood-Ranitarai-Patan at a cost of Rs 118 crore (40.5 km), Karesera-Kamharia-Silhati roads at a cost of Rs 92 crore ( 39.2 km), G.E. road-Indamara-Telkadih at a cost of Rs 56.6 crore ( 20 km), Chowki-Chilhati-Korchatola at a cost of Rs 58 crore ( 22.2. km), Dongagarh-Chichola at an investment of Rs 48.2 crore ( 15.3 km) Dhara-Telkadih at a cost of Rs 51.5 crore (19.4 km), Chikli-Padubatra at a cost of Rs 42 crore (15.9 km).
The other road projects are Pamgarh-lahod at a cost of Rs 76.5 crore (31 kilometer), Bishrampur-Datima at a cost of Rs 26.7 core (10 km), Ambikapur-Pratapur at a cost of Rs 83.2 crore (40.5 km), Baramkela-Sohela at a cost of Rs 91.5 crore (32 km), Gharghoda-lailoonga at cost of Rs 68 crore, Dhamdha-Bemetara roads at a cost of Rs 91.7 crore, Birkona-Piparia-Umaria roads' project at a cost of Rs 95 crore, Tara-Premnagar-Ramanujnagar at a cost of Rs 130 crore, Kawarda-Raipur-Kamaria at a cost of Rs 74.5 crore, Dondilohara-Junapani- Chowki at a cost of Rs 110 crore, Chichola-Chhuria-Kallubanjari at a cost of Rs 58 crore,Pasan-Piparia-Kodgar at a cost of Rs 97 crore, Seepat-Baloda-Oorga at a cost of Rs 111 crore, Poojitara-Tamnagar-lailoonga at a cost of Rs 146 crore, Haati-Oorga at Rs 192 crore.
The Chief Minister stressed upon the need to prepare a blueprint of Ambikapur Ring road as soon as possible.
He had also reviewed the modernisation and computerisation of transport check posts.