Ranchi: All countries will be arranged to strengthen various national highways next year because road projects worth more than RS 138 Crore have been approved by the Union Road and Highway departments.
In addition, more than two dozen projects worth Rs 2,900 Crore have also been proposed and are under the different approval phase.
According to the official national highway figures in the road construction department, six projects worth RS 138 Crore have been subject to sanctions which include strengthening and improving travel quality programs (IRQP) on different national highways in the state.
The National Highway stretches where the work of the IRQP must be done including 114A Rampurhat-dumka, 143 AG Lohardaga-Tamar, NH 75 E Ranchi-Missisemar and NH 419 Gobindpur-Kulti.
Projects that have been approved are the results of the conversation between the Union Road and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari and CM Hemant Soren where the former has convinced to sanction projects if the state places the DPR in April this year.
Engineers in the head, NH, Wahid Qamar Faridi said: “We have received sanctions on the Union Ministry on our six projects and more than two dozen projects are in the pipe.” Senior officials from the NH Sections said that their annual plan for the 2021-22 financial year was also completed and they expected to receive sanctions on most projects sent to the Ministry.
On asked about future projects and what work that has been waiting for a final nod.
A senior official said that there was an irqps, strengthening, improvement, widening and reconstruction in many major highways.
Apart from that some bypass roads for Lohardaga and Garhwa are also on the pipeline waiting for the last nod.