The assurance comes a day after Tripura government sought the Centre's intervention to repair a highway stretch to ensure supply of essential commodities to the state.
"I have instructed officials to work on war footing to fix NH-44 so as to improve connectivity to Tripura," Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari tweeted today.
The NH-44 constitutes Shillong-Passi-C288 Badarpur- Agartala Sabroom Shillong-Nongstoin section.
"I would be monitoring the progress of this highway on a fortnightly basis," the minister said in another tweet.
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Pradesh, the road transport minister said Rs 1,665 crore worth of projects have been completed for the Visakhapatnam port and projects worth Rs 2,702 crore are going on.
"Within 3 months, we are going to award the projects of Rs 1,200 crore. On this port, we are making investment of Rs 6,000 crore," Gadkari added.
He felt that port-driven development will reduce the cost and this is one of the reasons why the government is giving priority to waterways.
For the Amaravati-Anantpur road project, land acquisition has started and soon, it will start, according to the minister.
"Before the end of our five years, we will start the work for Andhra Pradesh worth Rs 1 lakh crore," he announced.
Meanwhile, NHAI and the Department of Roads and Buildings (R&B) inked MoU for construction of 3,000 km of roads, worth Rs 75,000 crore. The second MoU was signed between NHAI and CRDA for 426 km, worth of Rs 23,430 crore.