Road and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari told reporters here that Nagaland road project will be taken up till March 2017.
Turning to the infrastructure development of entire North-East, Gadkari pledged the Centre's wish in according the highest priority for development of the region.
Towards that objective, the Centre decided to have roads of more than 10,000 km in length in the region which would incur an approximate cost of Rs 1 lakh crore in a five-year span, he said.
On the Nagaland projects, Gadkari said the 43 km-long four laning of NH-39 will be completed at an estimated cost of Rs 1,200 crore.
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The project was a realisation of the announcement made by then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee during his maiden visit to the state in October 2003, he said.
Gadkari also assured to take up the work of improvement of city portion of NH-39 in Dimapur and Kohima for about 25 km length at an approximate amount of Rs 250 crore.
The Union Minister announced road and bridges projects approved by the Government of India, which include NH-39 Kohima-Imphal road covering a distance of 126 km at the cost of Rs 1250 crores, Peren-Dimapur road, a distance of 63kms at the cost of Rs 364 crore and Kohima-Dimapur bye-pass road covering distance of 61kms at a cost of Rs 550 crore.
Further, Gadkari informed, the Ministry has sanctioned three bridge works under CRF for 2015-16 worth Rs 91 crore.
Elaborating on the Rs 1 lakh crore worth projects to be executed in North East, Gadkari said 23 projects spanning 744 km and costing Rs 10,491 crore have already been started.