The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will collect user fee at the Shivnath bridge (Nandghat) on Raipur-Bilaspur Section of the National Highway 200 in Chhattisgarh.
It will soon appoint a collecting agency for the fee collection task, officials informed.
Notably, Chhattisgarh is all set to get new national highways with roads totalling length of 1367 kms, inform officials.
Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has assured of initiating necessary steps in this direction, they informed.
The assurance came during a meeting held between Chhattisgarh Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Rajesh Munat and Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi recently.
Munat had informed the Union Minister that in February this year the latter had announced of constructing new highway of 1285 km in Chhattisgarh.
As per the present requirement of the State, a proposal for sanctioning of additional 1367 kms highways has been sent to the Ministry, Munat said.
Munat also urged Gadkari to speed up the work for Raipur-Bilaspur highway.
Over the Raipur-Dhmatari Highway development issue, the Union Minister directed the concerned officers to float tenders within a week.
Munat also requested Gadkari for establishing the Regional Office of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in Raipur.
The Central Government had approved a total of four highway projects in Chhattisgarh with total road length measuring 60.36 kms with an outlay of `161.68 crores during the last one year, officials stated. Most of these projects are proposed to be implemented under Engineering, Procurement Construction (EPC) mode. The scheduled completion time of these projects generally varies from 24 to 36 months.