UPA govt takes steps to improve road connectivity, Muniyappa

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Shillong, Feb 9 (UNI) The Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways had taken special programmes for improving road connectivity in the North Eastern Region with the rest of the country, Minister of State of Shipping, Road and Highway Transport K H Muniyappa said here today.

Mr Muniyappa told reporters that his Ministry had also taken up special programmes to improve the inter-regional road connectivity to connect state capitals and district headquarters, also backward and remote areas of the region.

In order to connect the region with the rest of the country, with high speed and high capacity highway, 678 km four-lane highway was being constructed in Asom from Silchar to Srirampur as part of East-West corridor at an investment of about Rs 6000 crore, he said.

The project is likely to be completed by December, 2008, the Union Minister informed.

Mr Muniyappa said the UPA government had also formulated a Special Accelerated Road Development Programme for North East (SARDP-NE) for improvement of 7,616 km road under two phases.

He said, under Phase 'A', 1310 km of road will be taken up at an investment of Rs 4,618 crore.

He said all these roads, including construction of Shillong bypass, are targeted to be completed by March, 2009.

Mr Muniyappa further said the government had also conceptualised four-laning of 1051 km section of various National Highways to connect the state capitals with East-West Corridor as well as to upgrade 6,306 km road under Phase 'B' of the SARDP-NE at an investment of about Rs 28,000 crore.

These two schemes are under DPR preparation stage and the investment decision, including source of funding will be decided by the government after DPRs are ready.

Besides, the Ministry had provided Rs 143 crore to various states to upgrade the National Highways in addition to provision of about Rs 100 crore to improve State Roads under Central Road Fund and the scheme of economic importance and interstate connectivity, he added.

UNI

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