Stressing on speeding up the pending civil works of roads, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today urged the Central government to approve six newly proposed national highways in the state.
The Chief Minister, whomet Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi today, requested for approval of several newly proposed and pending works of road development inthe state.
According to a statement quoting the Chief Minister, she asked the Union Minister to take an early action on six new announcements on National Highways.
Raje said that guidelines for development of roads in religious, tourism and backward regions of the state under Bharatmala Programme be issued soon.
She suggested that 74.6 km Suratgarh-Anupgarh road, which had been already sanctioned with an estimated cost of Rs 291.20 crore under the Bharatmala Programme, be handed over to the Public Works Department of Rajasthan under the EPC scheme.
Raje requested Gadkari for an early approval of proposals worth Rs 291.2 crore for construction of 34 km 4-lane road at Kota-Darrah section of NH-12 and asked for support in getting environmental clearance of the same.
She further asked for sanction of another Rs 86.16 crore for CC road works in Jhalawar Town at NH-12.
Raje told the Union Minister that a detailed project report of Darrah-Teendhar Road on NH-12 had been forwarded to his Ministry.
She asked for considering this DPR in two parts because a seven-kilometer stretch of this road passed through a wildlife sanctuary which was facing difficulties in getting environmental clearance.
The Chief Minister said that Rs 20.5 crore be sanctioned for maintenance of this section of the road.
For rest of the project, she said, no environmental clearance was needed. Therefore, the Ministry should help in getting clearance of this report.
Construction of this road would benefit tourism as well as economic activities in this backward region of the state, she added.
