Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Nitin Gadkari inaugurating and laying the foundation stones of various Highway projects as part of a new economic corridor in Haryana today through webcast.
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Rupees two lakh crore worth of works to be completed in the first two years of this government
Travel time from Chandigarh to Delhi Airport to be reduced to half from 4 hrs. to 2 hrs.
– globalbihari bureau
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New Delhi: Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Nitin Gadkari inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of various Highway projects as part of a new economic corridor worth about Rs 20 thousand crore in Haryana on Tuesday through webcast. He asserted that Rupees two lakh crore worth of works will be completed in the first two years of this government.
It may be mentioned that with these projects, the National Highway Authority of India has been implementing projects work over Rs. 37000 crore in Haryana. Gadkari told Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal, who presided over the function, to expedite land acquisition for National Highway Projects in the State. He said for this purpose the issues would soon be discussed and sorted out with the Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways, General (Retd) V. K. Singh, who too was present in the virtual function.
Gadkari further said these projects would provide smooth connectivity within the State, as well as to other States like Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. As these projects were expected to decongest big cities reducing travel time, he pointed out that it will take about 2 hours to reach Delhi Airport from Chandigarh against 4 hrs now. “The projects will also save on time, fuels and cost, as also boost development in backward areas of the State,” he said.
The projects inaugurated include the 35.45 km 4-lane Rohna/Hasangarh to Jhajjar section of NH 334B costing Rs 1183 crore, the 70 km 4-laning of Punjab-Haryana Border to Jind section of NH 71 costing Rs 857 crore, and the 85.36 km 2-lane with paved shoulders Jind-Karnal Highway on NH 709 costing Rs 200 crore.
Foundation stones were laid for projects including the 227 km 6-lane access controlled Greenfield expressway from Ismailpur to Narnaul on NH 152D in 8 packages costing Rs 8650 crore, the 46 km 4-lane Gurugram Pataudi-Rewari section of NH 352W costing Rs 1524 crore, the 14.4 km 4-lane Rewari Byepass costing Rs 928 crore, the 30.45 km 4-lane Rewari-Ateli Mandi section of NH 11 costing Rs 1057 crore, the 40.8 km 6-lane Narnaul Bypass on NH 148B, NH 11 and Narnaul to Ateli Mandi section of NH 11 costing Rs 1380 crore, the 40.6 km 4-lane Jind-Gohana (Pkg 1, Greenfield alignment) of NH 352A costing Rs 1207 crore, the 38.23 km 4-lane Gohana-Sonipat section of NH 352A costing Rs 1502 crore, and the 40.47 km 4-lane UP-Haryana Border to Roha on NH 334B costing Rs 1509 crore.
The minister urged the farmers in the state to consider adopting crops for biofuels as “this will ensure employment opportunities within the villages, which will also stop mass migration in search of employment”. The Minister said, the proposed Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, Trans Haryana Economic Corridor and the Gurugram-Rewari-Ateli-Narnaul are the highways of a new emerging India, which will bring development in all corners of Haryana.
The Minister also called upon Haryana CM to join in the efforts for developing industrial clusters including MSMEs, smart cities and smart villages as also to develop Khadi and Village industries alongside the expressway projects particularly the New Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. He assured the Chief Minister of all assistances in this regard. The Minister informed about his goal for providing 5 crore jobs through MSMEs in next 5 years and enhancing KVIC turn over manifold from present level of Rs. 88000 crores per annum.
Gen. (Retd.) V.K. Singh told Haryana CM to consider developing Rewari bypass project into a ring road of the city of Rewari to help its decongestion.
It may be mentioned that while in 2014, the total NH length in Haryana was 2050 kilometre, it has now been brought up to 3237 kms. The NH density of 75 km per 1000 sq km is the highest among the major States of the country. Four major corridors are being developed in Haryana, which include two brownfield projects of Jind-Gohana-Sonipat and UP/Haryana Border-Rohna-Jhajjar. The other two are greenfield projects – Ambala-Kotputli 304 km and Gurugram Rewari-Narnaul-Rajasthan Border 132 km.
Apart from these, several important projects have been taken up in the Delhi NCR areas around Haryana. These include: the 1350 km Delhi-Mumbai Expressway costing about Rs one lakh crore, the 600 km Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway costing Rs 30,000 crore, the 30 km Dwarka Expressway costing over Rs 8,000 crore, the 21 km Gurugram-Sohna Road costing Rs 1630 crore, the 28 km Ambala Ring Road, and the 30 km Karnal Ring Road. In addition, other NH projects of 410 km are proposed, which will be awarded by next year. In the next 2-3 years, 1550 km long Highways and Expressways will be developed at an investment of Rs 60,000 crore. Out of this, about Rs 12,000 crore is being distributed as compensation amount to land holders in Haryana.
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