| Governor reviews progress of Srinagar, Jammu Ring Road projects | | |  Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 8: Governor N N Vohra today reviewed the progress of the upcoming Ring Road Projects which will open new economic opportunities and de congest vehicular traffic in the twin capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar.
Chairing a high-level meeting at the Civil Secretariat here this evening, Governor called upon the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and the concerned Departments of the State Government to adopt a well-coordinated and focused approach for ensuring that the twin projects, part of the Prime Minister's Development Package (PMDP), are completed within the stipulated timeframe of 3 years.
Advisors to Governor B B Vyas and Khurshid Ahmed Ganai and Chief Secretary, B V R Subrahmanyam participated in the meeting and made valuable suggestions on how to remove the bottlenecks and expedite the projects.
Officers said the total length of the project is 58.255 km in Jammu from Raya Morh to Nagrota of which 47.160 km are in plain terrain and 11.095 km fall in hilly areas. In Srinagar, the project length is 60.942 kms which will be taken up in two packages; one from Gallander which ends at Sumbal road junction (42.10 km length) and the second from Sumbal road junction to Wayul junction on existing NH-1D (19 km approx).
Governor asked the engineers to be imaginative in planning the road alignments as relatively longer roads may actually cost less than shorter roads which have more bridges and more culverts and which involve cutting of more trees.
The NHAI, the executing agency for the two projects, briefed Governor about the status of the work on the twin roads coming up at a cumulative cost of nearly Rs 4,000 crores.
The NHAI officers said that once the land is handed over to them in Kashmir, their engineering teams will urgently get down to the work and other issues relating to shifting of utilities, like electricity supply and water connections will also be resolved. |
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