New housing, infra projects to facilitate MR-10 development
"IDA board on Friday decided to construct housing units under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Urban 2.0 on a 1.613-hectare plot (FP-422) within the IDA's Town Planning Scheme (TPS)-08," IDA CEO RP Ahirwar said, adding that this construction will pave the way for the development of the MR-10 road by shifting the affected families into the flats.
The IDA board meeting, held under the chairmanship of divisional commissioner and chairman Deepak Singh, saw several significant decisions to advance various development projects in the city."A tender of Rs 48.81 crore was approved by the board for the construction of a new Rail Over Bridge between Laxmibai Nagar and Mangalia railway stations on the MR-10 road," the CEO said.
He added that tenders were approved for the shifting of High Tension (HT) and Low Tension (LT) lines. This includes a Rs 3.93 crore tender for the remaining work on a 60-metre-wide road and a Rs 1.90 crore tender for shifting lines that are obstructing the construction of master plan roads in TPS-4 (Nipania and Kanadiya).
"The board also approved a tender for the construction of a 12-meter-wide link road from Ring Road to MR-11, including street lighting and HT/LT line relocation," Ahirwar said.
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