Roads projects worth Rs 7,000 cr cleared.
The government today approved Rs 9,657 crore for rehabilitation of people in Jharia and Raniganj coal fields within the leasehold of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) and Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL).
The plan, approved by the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI), includes investing Rs 7,028 crore for the Jharia coal field and Rs 2,629 crore for the Raniganj coal field.
The government had earlier sanctioned over Rs 116 crore for various Environmental Measures and Subsidence Control schemes. This is likely to ensure safety of people who would be moved from endangered areas to safer places and would also check the burning of large amount of coal from the coalfields, according to a statement issued by the government.
In another major decision, the government today approved various highways projects, totaling about Rs 7,000 crore, in Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Maharashtra and Jharkhand, thus taking forward the road transport ministry’s 100-day agenda to build roads in the north-east and in naxal-affected areas.
Of this, it has approved Rs 1,909.25 crore for two-laning the Potin-Pangin road in Arunachal Pradesh. Another project for the state includes developing the road from Nechipu to Hoj to two lanes, at a cost of Rs 1,432 crore.
Two projects were sanctioned for Mizoram amounting to Rs 1,280 crore.
The CCI also approved four-laning of the Hazaribag-Ranchi section on NH-33 in Jharkhand at an estimated cost of Rs 688.07 crore.
It approved Rs 1,499 crore for developing two sub projects in Maharashtra — the Talegaon-Amaravati stretch on NH-6 and the Pune-Sholapur section on NH-9.
