Govt to construct Rs 4,700 crore ring road, claims Gadkari
2 Dec 2014 5:56 AM IST
“The problem of traffic in Delhi is very serious. Our government has decided to spend Rs 4,700 crore and we will construct a cement concrete ring road. The tender has been invited for the project and the last date to submit it is December 11. We will start giving work order after a foundation-laying ceremony by the Prime Minister,” Gadkari told reporters outside Parliament.
Regarding construction of another Delhi ring road of whose stretches fall in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and where work has been stopped, Gadkari said, “The governments of UP, Haryana and Delhi were involved in its construction. The work on this stretch has been stopped due to some dispute and the matter has gone to Supreme Court. A committee has been formed under former bureaucrat Bhure Lal to resolve it. Today, I have called a meeting of officials of UP and Haryana governments, besides Delhi’s Lieutenant-Governor and MPs to resolve the issue,” Gadkari said adding that the Centre will take up the project if the states fail to resolve the dispute.
The minister said he is also going to ask the L-G to involve traffic research institutions to identify the most congested traffic roads in the city and come up with ideas on how to decongest them.
The work on the much delayed 135 km Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway, an ambitious project of the Haryana government to ease traffic on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway might be expedited.
The Expressway was scheduled to be completed by July 2009, but in the past five years, the project has missed many deadlines.
Regarding construction of another Delhi ring road of whose stretches fall in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and where work has been stopped, Gadkari said, “The governments of UP, Haryana and Delhi were involved in its construction. The work on this stretch has been stopped due to some dispute and the matter has gone to Supreme Court. A committee has been formed under former bureaucrat Bhure Lal to resolve it. Today, I have called a meeting of officials of UP and Haryana governments, besides Delhi’s Lieutenant-Governor and MPs to resolve the issue,” Gadkari said adding that the Centre will take up the project if the states fail to resolve the dispute.
The minister said he is also going to ask the L-G to involve traffic research institutions to identify the most congested traffic roads in the city and come up with ideas on how to decongest them.
The work on the much delayed 135 km Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway, an ambitious project of the Haryana government to ease traffic on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway might be expedited.
The Expressway was scheduled to be completed by July 2009, but in the past five years, the project has missed many deadlines.
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