The Kanker Bypass and Keshkal Ghat Bypass are being developed as part of project named Kanker to Bedma Section in Bastar, the Central Government has informed.
All the ongoing projects including bypasses are likely to be completed by the end of September 2021.
Notably, the Chhattisgarh Government is constructing a total of 17 bypasses to ease traffic congestion in cities of 11 districts under NHDP-IV and allied schemes, .
The bypasses will be constructed in the cities which have national highways passing through them at a cost of Rs 510 crores.
As many as 46 bypass roads are currently being laid around urban pockets of Chhattisgarh at a cost of Rs 1223 crores.
A total of 20 bypass roads have also been approved at a cost of Rs 589 crores.
Another 26 bypass roads have been approved which are away from urban pockets.
The State Public Works Department (PWD) had also started constructing 19 new bypass roads at a cost of Rs 242 crore to minimise traffic pressure of city roads across the State in 2016.
One of the projects among the 19 bypass roads is the 8-km long 'Kondagaon bypass road' in Bastar for which Rs 10 crore was sanctioned.
likewise, Rs 17 crores have been sanctioned for 24-km long Jagdalpur bypass number 2, Rs 11 crore for 11-km long Balod bypass road, Rs 17 crore for 8km-long Tilda-Neora bypass road, Rs 10 crore for 10-km long Nandini city bypass road, Rs 12 crore for 6-km long Ahiwara bypass road, Rs 13 crore for 5-km long Kota bypass road, Rs 5 crore for 5km-long Pandarita bypass road, Rs 18 crore for 14 km-long Pendra bypass road, Rs 10 crore for 10-km long Bhatapara bypass road, Rs 22 crore for 11 km long lormi bypass road, Rs 13 crore for 10-km long Masturi Seepat bypass road and Rs 17 crore has been sanctioned for 8 km-long Shivrinarayan bypass road.
Besides, Rs 7 crores have been sanctioned for construction of 2.5 km-long Akaltara bypass road, Rs 10 crore for 10 km-long Balrampur bypass road, Rs 14 crore for 7 km-long Wadrafnagar bypass road, Rs six crore for 3.5 km-long Sarbahara bypass road, and Rs 10 crore for construction of 6.6 km-long Baloda bypass road has been sanctioned.