Dalmandi road widening among projects to be unveiled by PM on Sat
District magistrate Satyendra Kumar told TOI on Thursday, "The PM will gift projects worth over Rs 2,183 crore, including inauguration of 14 ready projects worth Rs 565 crore. He will lay foundation for 38 new projects worth Rs 1,618.1 crore during his public meeting." The projects include smart distribution and underground electrical infrastructure at a cost of Rs 881.56 crore, widening and strengthening of Dalmandi Road at Rs 215 crore, homeopathic college and hospital worth Rs 85.72 crore, Kachhwa-Kapsethi-Chaubeypur Road worth Rs 51 crore, Chhittampur-Rajwadi-Dhaurahra road worth Rs 30.67 crore, Harsos-Suichak-Gangapur road worth Rs 24.99 crore, Gangapur-Rohania Road worth Rs 20.29 crore, the Lehartara-Kotwa-Koraut-Akelwa Road worth Rs 21.7 crore, beautification and tourism development at Karkhiyao village and development of a memorial for 26 freedom fighters at a cost of Rs 18.76 crore and the Varanasi-Ghazipur highway to Swarved Temple at Rs 11.46 crore.
Besides these, other sectors and components include urban Miyawaki forests, floating platforms and changing rooms at ghats along the Ganga, facility centres, garbage transfer stations, a new district library, rejuvenation of govt high schools and redevelopment of parks. In the long list of new projects, all eyes are on Dalmandi Road widening project. After opening of the rejuvenated Kashi Vishwanath Dham by the PM in Dec 2021, footfall of devotees increased multifold.
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During the recent Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj and the ongoing Shrawan month, managing crowd proved difficult for police and district administration.
Exploring ways to divide the crowd, the plan for widening Dalmandi was finalised. Following CM Yogi Adityanath's instruction issued to officials on Jul 17 to ensure execution of Dalmandi Road widening project and financial and administrative approval given by state cabinet on Jul 22 for easy access to Gate No.
4 of Kashi Vishwanath Dham from Naisadak, PWD started demarcation of 184 identified buildings.
The Rs 215.88 crore project will finish demarcation in the 650-metre-long Dalmandi, a narrow street full of bottlenecks, to convert it into a 17.4-metre-wide passage. These developments caused worry to the Muslim-dominated commercial-cum-residential area of Dalmandi Mufti-e-Banaras Maulana Abdul Batin Nomani wrote an open letter to the President, PM, CM, and opposition leaders on Jul 25, stating that for years, people from diverse social, cultural and religious backgrounds had engaged in business activities here in harmony and livelihood of nearly 10,000 families was directly and indirectly linked to this area.
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