PM lays foundation stones of 9 highways
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the Government is to spend more than Rs.110 lakh crore on infrastructure in the coming 4-5 years, adding that six projects are underway to connect North India with South India.
He gave the road development update when laying the foundation stone of nine highway projects, worth Rs,14,258 crore, in Bihar on 21 Sept 2020, including 17 bridges over rivers. Each of the 17 bridges over Ganga river will be spaced at 25-km.
More than Rs.19 lakh crore is allocated for the development of highways out of the Rs.110 lakh crore.
Due care is being given towards developing a multi-modal transport system in the country, said the Prime Minister.
In 2015, the Prime Minister had declared a special package for significant infrastructure development of Bihar including 75 projects worth Rs.54,700 crore. Thirty-eight of these projects are progressing in various stages from DPR, bidding and sanction stage while 13 have been completed.
The highway projects include:
four-laning of 47.23-km Bakhtiyarpur-Rajauli section of NH-31 at a cost of Rs.1,149.55 crore,
four-laning of 50.89-km Bakhtiyarpur-Rajauli section of NH-31 at a cost of Rs.2,650.76 crore,
four-laning of 54.53-km Ara-Mohania section of NH-30 on EPC Mode at a cost of Rs.885.41 crore,
four-laning of 60.80-km Ara-Mohania section of NH-30 on EPC Mode at a cost of Rs.855.93 crore,
four-laning of 49-km Narenpur-Purnea Section of NH-131A on HAM Mode at a cost of Rs.2,288 crore,
six-laning of 39-km Patna-Ring Road (Kanhauli-Ramnagar) of NH 131G on EPC Mode at a cost of Rs.913.15 crore,
construction of a new 14.5 km four-lane bridge (Parallel to existing MG Setu) with its approaches across river Ganga on NH-19 at Patna at a cost of Rs.2,926.42 crore,
construction of a new 28.93-km 4-lane bridge across river Kosi on NH-106 with 2-Lane paved shoulder on EPC mode at a cost of Rs.1,478.40 crore,
and construction of new 4.445-km 4-Lane bridge (parallel to existing Vikramashila Setu) across river Ganga on NH-131B at a cost of Rs.1,110.23 crore.
He also inaugurated the Optical Fibre internet services, connecting all the 45,945 villages of Bihar.
This project will be executed by the Department of Telecom, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology and Common Service Centres (CSC).
CSC’s 34,821 Centres throughout Bihar will provide the Optical Fibre Internet Services for common citizens at every Bihar village.
The Project would also entail implementation of 1 wi-fi and 5 free of cost connections to Government Institutions like Primary Schools, Anganwadi Centres, Aasha Workers, Jeevika Didi etc.
This project will lead digital services like e-Education, e-Agriculture, Tele-Medicine, Tele-law and other social security schemes to be easily available to all citizens of Bihar at the click of the button. #highways #roads #infrastructrue #internet #fibre #development #projects #tenders /fiinews.com
