Chief Secretary directs to finish the pending works for Nationwide Highways and Railway Initiatives within the state
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Secretary Vijay Kumar Janjua on Thursday gave orders to finish the Nationwide Highways and Railway Initiatives work in a well timed method. Whereas reviewing the continued tasks of the Nationwide Highways Authority (NHAI), all of the Deputy Commissioners have been requested to finish the land acquisition course of instantly and pay compensation to the involved individuals in order that the development of the roads could possibly be accomplished on time.
Throughout the assembly with the senior officers of the involved departments and NHAI and Deputy Commissioners of the districts, Mr. Janjua mentioned that following the directions of the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to finish the nationwide tasks within the state on time, they need to be accomplished quick and no laxity shall be tolerated on this matter. He mentioned that the farmers of the state are to get an quantity of Rs. 15,000 Cr as compensation and building of roads costing Rs. 40,000 Cr is to be achieved. With the development of the brand new Expressway, the tempo of growth within the state shall be quicker and traders will get an enormous increase.
The Chief Secretary took inventory of the particular work of every mission whereas reviewing the identical district smart and gave directions to finish them. If there was any downside associated to the division, he directed to take away it. He requested the Income Division and Deputy Commissioners to depute officers as per requirement. He additionally requested NHAI to finish the remaining work associated to them.
Mr. Janjua additional knowledgeable that 15 Greenfield Expressways with a size of 1173 km and 9 Brownfield Expressways with a size of 436 km are being constructed within the state. Delhi-Amritsar-Kattra Expressway, Amritsar-Bathinda, Ludhiana-Bathinda, Mohali-Bathinda and Ludhiana-Ropar, Jalandhar Bypass, Amritsar Bypass, Mohali Bypass and Ludhiana Bypass are distinguished amongst them. On the problem raised by the Site visitors Police within the assembly, the Chief Secretary requested the officers that the entry and exit factors within the new highways ought to be marked maintaining in view the native wants so that folks don’t face any issues later.
The assembly was attended by Monetary Commissioner Income KAP Sinha, Further Chief Secretary Forest Vikas Garg, Secretary Public Works Neel Kanth Avhad, Adviser NHAI Hussan Lal, ADGP Legislation and Order Arpit Shukla, ADGP Site visitors AS Rai, Divisional Commissioner Jalandhar Gurpreet Kaur Sapra, Divisional Commissioner Ropar Indu Malhotra and the mission administrators of NHAI have been additionally current. Other than this, the Deputy Commissioners of the respective districts additionally attended the assembly by way of video conferencing.
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