Jharkhand, in the 9th meeting of Standing Committee of Inter-State Council, has sought more funds for the repair of the National Highways. The State also put proposal for renovation of old bridges, widening of NHs and inter-State highways.
Informing about the meeting taken place on Friday Additional Chief Secretary NN Pandey said that apart from these issues positive discussion took place on railway, telecommunication, police modernisation and agriculture.
The meeting also saw some old pending issues between States coming in and Jharkhand sought maps from Bihar for their digitisation. Besides these two, Odisha and West Bengal participated the meeting that was chaired by Chief Secretary Rajiv Gauba.
Jharkhand also apprised other States about starting land acquisition process for freight corridor. It has also been decided that secretaries of Bihar and Jharkhand would resolve inter-State disputes while matters pending in courts would be taken up after final verdict.
The agreements reached in the meeting would be approved in the meeting with the Union Home Minister. Bihar’s Home Secretary Aamir Shuhani and RK Gupta of West Bengal besides Special Secretary in Odisha RK Tripathi participated in the meeting.