Gadkari fixes deadlines for key road projects in Punjab

CHANDIGARH: Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday fixed deadlines for various major road projects in Punjab at a meeting with deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and asked the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to initiate the process to declare Banga-Garhsankhar-Anandpur Sahib road as national highway.

The current status of various pending road projects in the state with Union minister, which mainly includes four or six-laning of Chandigarh-Kharar-Ludhiana section of the NH-95, improvement of Amritsar bypass (NH-1) up to Attari border, maintenance of Ropar-Phagwara road, widening and strengthening of Banga-Garhshankar-Anandpur Sahib, elevated road project in Ludhiana from Samrala Chowk to municipal corporation limit of Ludhiana (NH-95) and construction of 5 railway overbridges (ROBs).

Sukhbir informed Gadkari that NHAI had resubmitted the proposal for Chandigarh-Ludhiana road project to the ministry on March 26 after attending to all observations. On the request of the deputy CM the Union minister asked the officers concerned to award the construction work till July 31.

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