To avert road fatalities on National Highway-30, which connects Chhattisgarh's Raipur city with Andhra Pradesh’s capital Amaravati, the Chhattisgarh Government is going to take up the work of modification of dangerous and sharp turns of Jeeram Valley in Bastar district.
In this connection, District Collector Amit Kataria personally visited the National Highway till Tehekwada and also took stock of ongoing works.
The Collector was accompanied by Superintendent of Police R N Dash, Chief Executive Officer of District Panchayat K l Chouhan, Additional Superintendent of Police Vijay Pandey, Executive Engineer of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) (Sukma division) P N Sai and Sub Divisional Officer Pragya Nand.
During the course of inspection, Kataria was apprised by officials that with the expenditure of around Rs 20 crore from lWE fund, a stretch of 9 km road has been constructed which also includes protection work.
Interacting with officials engaged in the road development work, the Collector directed to take up protection related works on priority.
Notably, to accelerate vehicular movement of the road, a proposal to the tune of around Rs 4 crore for carrying out necessary improvement at sharp turns (at four places) has been forwarded to the administration.
Terming the dangerous turns on the route as threat to human lives, Kataria asked officials concerned to take up repair work on a broad level.
In the meantime, officials of NHAI informed that road widening work will be carried out on 7 kms patch falling under Kanger valley National Park and tarring work is going to be carried out on 4 km road between Tongpal and Tahekwada.