The Chhattisgarh Government will spend Rs1500 crore for laying a network of roads across the State.
This was informed by officials in a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Raman Singh on Tuesday at his official residence here to review road projects taken up by the State Public Works Department (PWD), officials stated.
The Chief Minister during the meeting took stock of the network of 3,000 kilometers of national highways passing through the Chhattisgarh State.
PWD Minister Rajesh Munat, Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, Public Works Department Principal Secretary Amitabh Jain, Secretary Anil Rai, Secretary to Chief Minister Subodh Kumar Singh and a number of senior officers were present at the high-level meeting.
Singh had a detailed discussion regarding the national highways which had been sanctioned by the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari to Chhattisgarh.
It may be mentioned here that the target is to lay 3,275 kilometers of national highways worth Rs20,500 crores and the works will begin by the end of this year.
The Chief Minister had a discussion regarding the upgradation and widening of 126 km long road from Raipur to Bilaspur.
The works relating to the 80 km roads linking Dhamtari to Raipur had been handed over to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
There is a proposal to restructure the roads and 240 hectares of land is being acquired for this purpose, they informed.
The Chief Minister also discussed the linking of the gaps between two fly-overs at Rajnandgaon with a new fly-over.
The idea had been proposed by Rajnandgaon MP Abhishek Singh. The proposal had been sent to the Central government for approval.
Singh said that the 525 km road route linking the two ‘Shaktipeeths’- Ratanpur and Dantewada- had been declared as National Highways by Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari.
Gadkari has sanctioned three flyovers on the busy Raipur-Durg Highways at Tatiband and Kumhari.
Munat said that after the construction of fly-overs there will be smooth flow of traffic.
All the 27 district headquarters are connected with National Highways or are on the peripheries of the Highways.
The Chief Minister also reviewed the Asian Development Bank Project network of roads.