Keri: Concerns have been raised among the environmental lovers on the road two paths planned on the Chorla Ghat route from Sakhali to the Batalangi under Bharatmala Pariyanajana.
The National Highway Authority (NHAI) has waved the tender for twlaning with / without paved shoulders on the basis of procurement and construction.
In accordance with the tender, the route will pass through Machhe, Piranwadi, Navage, Kinaye, Kusamalli, Jamboti, Kalmani, Kankumbi, Poriem and Sakhali.
Already, 75% of the four lanings in the BELIGAVI-Khanapur section of the NH 748 have been completed.
A decade ago, when planning a four-lane road from Panaji to Belaghiavi was proposed through Chorla Ghat, environmental lovers had submitted a petition before the Karnataka High Court and lived to the expansion of the road and planned widening on the grounds that it would sink the landing projects Kalasa under DAMMING More expensive than just JECT in Kankumbi and the actual cost of new causes losses to the public.
Concerns are also raised by environmental lovers that it will pose a serious threat to regional forests, wildlife and ecology.
However, Nhai has floated tenders for the task of twlaning with the estimated proposed Rs 229.2 Crore.
According to tender conditions, the contractor must complete work within two years.
Nyla Coelho, a lover of the environment from the Belaghiavi, told TII, “the existing road, if correctly repaired, will meet the needs of public and personal transportation.
With the guise of two lanings, NHAI has proposed existing road expansion, which will have serious implications for Miwa Miwa Mhadei in Goa and Sanctuary Wildlife Bhimgad in Karnataka.
Landslide incidents that have often occurred on the existing road so that it causes a lot of discomfort in the area.
“At present, the government’s decision to divert crowded traffic through this route has been responsible To cause traffic congestion and increase obstacles to wildlife intersections.
Now a new threat will intensify the loss of wildlife and a variety of tree logging, Wildlifer said.