Wednesday, 26 December 2018

Maharashtra’s Various Road Development Issues Get Green Signal From Centre; Power Minister, Chandrashekhar Bawankule










                                                                                        
New Delhi, Dec. 26: In a bid to expedite Vidarbha, Marathwada, Khandesh, Western Maharashtra’s pending road development works, a review meeting was held in the Capital, in which the Road Transport and Highways Ministry has given a green signal to expedite all pending issues, informed the State Power Minister, Shri Chandrashekhar Bawankule.


A review meeting was held at 2, Motilal Nehru Marg, the official residence of the Union Road Transport and Highways Minister, Shri Nitin Gadkari. Present in this meeting was Nagpur District Guardian Minister, Shri Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Protection Minister, Shri Girish Bapat, RT & Highways Secretary, Shri Yudhvir Singh Mallick, senior Officers, NHAI senior Officers and many other officers.

Deliberations on Maharashtra’s various pending road development issues took place during the meeting. Issues like widening and connecting of old NH211 stretch (called Jalna Road) with length 14.5 km passing through Aurangabad city from Chikalthana to Nagar Naka involving an estimate expenditure of Rs 200 crores, six-laning of Nagpur-Bhandara, Amravati District’s Nandgaon Peth Toll Naka, One time improvement of Jalgaon City portion on NH6 and another issue of NH6 to connectivity seoni-shirur-PKV-Dakshata Nagar-Ridhora bypass connecting NH6 involving an estimate expenditure of Rs 136 crores was also discussed.  The Union Minister gave a positive assurance for expediting all issues.

Shifting of Mansar Toll Naka – Work-In-Progress
In the previous meetings held for shifting of Mansar Toll Naka in Nagpur towards Khwasa, to which the Government of Maharashtra had consented to do the needful. In today’s meeting, Shri Bawankule informed the union minister about its work in progress.  Informing further, he said, this would definitely boost up the spirits of devotees visiting Ramtek.  Issues pertaining to shifting of Patansavangi-savner Toll Naka towards Baitul in Madhya Pradesh, constructing of a over bridge at Nagpur-Savner Road and putting up a signage board as, ‘11.285’, to avoid accident prone area and to provide adequate security cover to this area were discussed.

Pune District’s issue of Integrated Infrastructure of road development of NH4 at Chandni Chowk, one time improvement of Miraj City roads development for Rs 100 crores, construction of flyover near Koradi Mandir Road on NH47 and Amravati-Chikali and Fagane-Gujrat Border NH (IL&FS Project) were also discussed. The Minister gave a patient ear to all issues and assured of all clearances as early as possible.


Pune’s 32km Ring Road Phase-I Proposal Submitted to Ministry
                 Guardian Minister, Girish Bapat

Pune Guardian Minister, Shri Girish Bapat was here to deliberate on the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority’s (PMRDA) revised Phase-wise project proposal of Pune Ring Road Phase-I to NHAI under Bharatmala Pariyojana. The project cost of Rs 110 meter wide and 32 KM Ring Road would be around Rs 1981 crores, informed the minister. In this regards, PMRDA would take responsibility of land acquisition, informed Shri Bapat. The total cost involved will be around Rs 3Thousand 674 crores including land acquisition, he added.  After going through the proposal, Shri Gadkari asked Shri Bapat submit a presentation of the same to Secretary, NHAI. Shri Bapat said that, he would submit this presentation within few days.

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