Giving a major fillip to road infrastructure in Kolhan region, Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Sunday laid the foundation stone for nine road projects worth Rs 255 crore.
The projects to be implemented by the State road construction department included the four-lane Domuhani Bridge over river Subernarekha connecting the Marine Drive in Sonari ( at Jamshedpur in East Singhbhum) with NH-33 at Kanderbera ( in Chandil, Seraikela-Kharsawan), the Jadugora-Sundernagar Road, an elevated road corridor near Jadugora on Hata-Mosabani Road, Tatanagar railway station- Baroda Ghat Road, Galudih-Narsinghpur Road ( connect NH-33 with Bengal border), Dhalbhumgarh-Rautara Road ( it will connect 11 revenue villages of Dhalbhumgarh block directly with NH-33), Telco Dhobi Ghat-Barabanki Road ( this road will reduce traffic load of heavy vehicles in steel city), Asanboni-Patamda Road and Kanderbera-Domuhani Road ( which will connect to the four lane Domuhani Bridge).
Addressing the foundation stone laying ceremony organised at Domuhani in Sonari, the Chief Minister said that his Government is focussing on infrastructure development. In the next two years his government will spread road network in both urban and rural areas in a way that it will hardly take one hour to reach a district headquarter from a remote block.
“We want to build world class roads across the State. We are coming up with several ambitious road projects which will not only reduce inter-State and inter-district travel time but will also reduce the load of heavy traffic on the main cities,” he said.
With reference to Jamshedpur, the Chief Minister said that with Tata Steel augmenting its production capacity from 10 to 11 million tonne per annum it has become all the more important to improve road infrastructure.
“During a recent meeting with Tata Sons chairman Cyrus P Mistry in Mumbai, he had expressed need to increase the production capacity to around 15 million tonne per annum. For this we need to better the road infrastructure,” said Das addressing the gathering.
The Chief Minister also announced that a memorial of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu a spiritual leader of Bengal will come up at Domuhani. “The Bengal's spiritual teacher had visited Domuhani while he went around the country. We will soon come up with his memorial at Domuhani,” said Das. He also informed that Tata Steel will be roped in for developing a park along the river Subernarekha.
State food and civil supplies minister Saryu Roy and local MlA under whose constituency Sonari falls said that the Domuhani Bridge will reduce the travel time between Jamshedpur and Ranchi by atleast half-an-hour.
The minister also made attacked Congress for trying to disturb the functioning of the government. He was referring to Sunday’s protest by a section of Congress activists against the foundation stone laying ceremony of the multi-crore project.
The foudation stone laying ceremony was also attended by two MP's- Bidyut Varan Mahto ( Jamshedpur), Ramtahal Choudhary ( Ranchi) and MlA's - laxman Tudu ( Ghatshila), Ramchandra Sahis ( Jugsalai), Menka Sardar ( Potka), Sadhu Charan Mahto ( Ichagarh).