Manish Tewari meets Nitin Gadkari, calls for completion of Banga-Anandpur Sahib street in Punjab
ANI
New Delhi, February 10
Congress MP Manish Tewari known as upon Union Highway Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari and reiterated the demand for the completion of the Banga-Anandpur Sahib Highway in Punjab as a Nationwide Highways challenge.
Tewari is the MP from Sri Anandpur Sahib constituency in Punjab.
Tewari reminded Gadkari that he had accorded in-principle approval to improve the Banga-Sri Anandpur Sahib Highway to a Nationwide Freeway. The Congress chief handed over a letter to Gadkari concerning the matter.
“In February 2019, you laid the muse stone of this challenge which was imagined to value Rs 581 crores. Sadly, since 2019, the challenge has been hanging fireplace and there was completely no progress in bringing it to any fruition,” Tewari stated.
The Congress MP stated the Banga-Sri Anandpur Sahib street connects two of the holiest locations within the Sikh Faith– Sri Harminder Sahib and Sri Anandpur Sahib.
There are various international vacationers and even home vacationers who recurrently go to each these shrines after which go on to go to the Naina Devi, which is located in Himachal Pradesh.
“I might be grateful if this street is adopted as a Nationwide Freeway beneath the Bharat Mala Tour Scheme or beneath another related scheme of the Central Authorities and this challenge is taken up on an pressing foundation and delivered to fruition,” Tewari stated.
“It will not be remiss to level out that this explicit street has a really particular place in the complete historiography and tradition of Punjab. Due to this fact, it’s crucial that this street have to be taken up as a nationwide freeway and accomplished on the earliest,” he added.