23 road projects worth over Rs 1,814 crore sanctioned in MP under central scheme.
The Union government has approved 23 road projects worth Rs 1814.9 crore having a combined total length of over 600 km for Madhya Pradesh under the Central Road Fund scheme, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Wednesday. The sanctioned road projects include four road projects of Gwalior and the much-needed elevated corridor over Bairagarh in Bhopal to ease the congestion on the busy Bhopal-Indore Road.
Chouhan thanked the Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and the Union surface transport minister Nitin Gadkari for
sanctioning Rs 1814.9 crore for the 23 road projects, a public relation
department official said.
State PWD minister Gopal Bhargava
informed that Chouhan had submitted a proposal amounting to Rs 4,080 crore
under central road fund on September 16.
Under this fund, the entire amount
for the road construction is given by the Centre while the cost of land
acquisition, shifting of electric poles and other properties is borne by the
state, Bhargava said.
Earlier in the day the minister for
water resources and in-charge of Gwalior, Tulsiram Silavat informed press, that
the Union civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia had also written a
letter to his cabinet colleague Nitin Gadkari highlighting the pathetic
condition of roads in the Gwalior region and the need for their construction in
public interest.
