Both bypass and four-lane roads will soon be constructed in Dhamtari. Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has given in-principle approval for the projects.
Former MlA Inder Chopra and Municipality Chairman Dr NP Gupta and other BJP leaders made the announcement in a press conference held here on Saturday.They informed that Chief Minister Raman Singh was much sensitive and serious about the development of Dhamtari. He is well aware of the needs of the district.The State Government has also been preparing for construction of the bypass road. If the process for four-lane were started first, it will be better, otherwise, the State Government will start the process for bypass road from December next.
Earlier, the proposed amount for the bypass road was `48 crore, which now has hiked to `97.65 crore. Chopra said that efforts were being made to malign the image of Municipality Chairman Dr NP Gupta by putting up different kinds of posters in Dhamtari.
He alleged that such people, who were defeated by the BJP in the last election, have been engaged in such work. Such efforts were being made in view of the forthcoming civic body elections.The Chief Minister has declared the Municipality as a Corporation and work in this direction has been started at Secretariat level, he added.
Municipality Chairman Dr Gupta said that PWD Minister Rajesh Munat had made the announcement of making Dhamtari Municipality as Municipal Corporation. Now, election would be held not for the Municipality, but Municipal Corporation.Population of the Municipality is about 92,000. Some villages up to four-kilometre areas of the municipality would be brought under the limit of the corporation.
Municipal Corporation Vice-chairperson Chitrarekha Nirmalkar, Ramu Rohra, Parvati Wadhwani, Archana Choubey, Kavindra Jain, Dayashankar Soni, Sharad Choubey, Shiromanirao Ghorpade, Ravi Pandey, Santosh Maharaj, Arvind Mundi, Prem Munjwani, Puja Kunjam, Anita Sonkar, Neel Patel and others were present at the press conference.