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| 2007 was year of roads | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Jan 7
If for nothing else, the year 2007 in Jammu and Kashmir can well be declared as a year of roads and buildings as expansion remained phenomenal.
At least 365 kilometers of new roads were constructed in different parts of state and a double to this length were further improved by lacktopping, shows the annual report of the government. On an average, one kilometer of road has been added, two kilometers blacktopped, 10 running meters of bridge and 4000 sq. ft. of new buildings constructed every day during 2007 in the R&B sector. Among the mega projects up for completion next year the work on the Assembly complex project at Srinagar resumed during 2007 is likely to be completed by the middle of 2008 at a cost of Rs. 22 crore.
under the road communication sector in the State 277 PMGSY road projects constituting a length of 1026.73 kilometers costing Rs. 315.22 crore were under execution as on December, 2006. During 2007, 143 new road projects of 1152.83 kilometers length costing approximately Rs. 531.22 crore were got sanctioned. Out of the above, 107 projects have been completed adding 257 kilometers of new length.
In addition, a road length of 335 kilometers under 29 rural road upgradation projects is expected to be sanctioned for blacktopping by the end of March 2008 at an approximate cost of Rs. 198.20 crore.
New projects costing Rs. 831.82 crore are expected to be sanctioned by NABARD by March, 2008 out of which Rs. 333.63 crore have already been sanctioned up to December, 2007.
Under the Central Road Fund, projects worth Rs. 180.46 crore were sanctioned in 2007, which is the maximum in any given year till date and for the first time, one project, namely Basohli-Bhaderwah-Chamba road, costing Rs. 79.97 crore, was sanctioned under Inter-State connectivity. In addition, Rs. 600 crore have been approved by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for flyovers and frastructure development for Jammu and Srinagar cities. In the first ten months of the year 2007 about 1000 kilometers of road length were blacktopped with an expenditure of about Rs. 60 crore.
The Rs 255 crore Mughal Road project, the National Highway By-Pass project Srinagar, Kokernag-Warwan-Marwah road, the Gandoh-Bhaderwah road and Akhnoor Bridge over river Chenab, were likely to be ompleted by the middle of 2008. The State Government has got two prestigious bridge projects at Meramandrian near Akhnoor on river Chenab and at Nowshera sanctioned under the Central Road Fund, he said and added that the geological survey for the proposed tunnel across Zojila was in full swing. The tunnel would ensure round the year connectivity to the Ladakh region.
Some of the important bridges likely to be completed in 2008 are Chhati Padshahi in Baramulla, Bemina and Tengpora in Srinagar, Ganpat over river Chenab in Doda, Chadoora and Lasjan in Budgam, Behni nallah in Kathua and Mughalpora in Kupwara., The Utterbeni bridge near Jammu was completed during the current financial year. |
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