Two road construction agencies to face action: CS
While the progress of work on the Amas-Darbhanga Express highway was found to be unsatisfactory, the work being done by the agency concerned on the Siwan-Mashrakh section of Ram-Janaki Marg was found to be slow, a govt release said.
The PMG meets on the first Wednesday of every month to review the status of the implementation of the central infrastructural projects connected with rail, highways, petroleum and communications and gas connection.
Among the decisions taken at the PMG meeting, the DMs of Vaishali, Samastipur, Darbhanga, Saharsa, Madhepura and Purnia were asked to complete the land acquisition work in the next 100 days with regard to the Patna-Purnia express way. The NHAI said that it would issue the tender for the allotment of the construction work to the selected agency.
Further, the land acquisition work connected with the sections of the Raxaul-Haldia and Siliguri-Gorakhpur highways falling in Bihar would also begin soon.
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Since 2015, the NHAI has given its sanction to the construction of 68 highway projects. Of them, 21 projects have been completed, while the work has been going on 47 others, including the 21 highways which are in the planning stage. The total cost of production of the 68 projects is Rs 2.20 lakh crore, of which Rs 38,000 crore has already been utilized for the construction work.
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