Yogi government has approved seven two-lane roads across UP

With an aim to improve road networking the Yogi government has approved seven two-lane roads across Uttar Pradesh having  a total distance of around 400 kms besides revised rules for acquiring land to set up private university in the state.

The decisions were taken in the cabinet meeting held here on Tuesday.

Briefing reporters here the government spokesman Shrikant Sharma said that the cabinet has approved seven two-lane roads of varied distances across UP. These roads will be financed by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB). The construction of these roads will be carried out in a time bound manner and once construction is over these will connect villages with the state highways, the spokesman said.

Among the roads which will be constructed are: the 48 km long Mohanlalganj-Morrawan road, 79.42 km long Budaun-Bilsi-Bijnore road, 36 km long Bulandshahar-Anupnagar road, 59 km long Muzaffarnagar-Barot road, 55.77 km long Gola-Shahajahanpur road and 88 km long comprising Kaptanganj-Narain Nagar and Gauri Bazar-Rudrapur road.

“Besides this government has also approved additional grant for construction of bridge at Sitapur-Bahraich highway over Chahlari ghat. The government has sanctioned Rs 37115 lakh for additional job including construction of connecting road,” the spokesman said.    

The state cabinet has also revised the rules for acquiring land for construction of a private university in the state. Earlier, the rule was that an approval can be granted only if there is 40 acres of land in urban areas and 100 acres in rural areas. 

The proposals had dried up because private players were finding it hard to acquire such a huge area of land. The government has proposed a new rule under which the urban area requirement has been reduced to 20 acre and for rural areas it is 50 acre.

Karchchana Thermal Power project: In another decision which could be requiem for the Karchchana Thermal power plant, a dream project of Akhilesh Yadav Government, the Yogi government has cancelled the previous agreement and decided to go for tariff based project. 

During Akhilesh regime M/S Sangam Power Generation Company Limited was asked to construct thermal power plant in karchchana but later the project was handed over to UP State Power Generation Corporation Ltd. Rs 10,600 crore was also sanctioned for this project.

“The Energy Task Force has cancelled this agreement and now the project will constructed on tariff base proposal and the amount of Rs 10,600 crore will be used in strengthening of rural electrification,” he said.

Similarly, the 400 MW Jawaharpur Thermal power project will be constructed ontartariff based proposal.

Bhawani Dam: The cabinet has also approved Rs 51274 lakh for Bhaweanipur dam scheme  that will come up in Lalitpur.

JP Associates: Government has agreed to give additional 866.177 hectare of land to forest department so that JP Associate can carry on mining work in Sonebhadra. Spokesman said that mining work was closed after NGT ordered on May 4, 2016 that JP Associate had encroached on forest land and the mining work should stop.

“The NGT had said that if government transfers equal area of land to forest department then only JP Associates can be allowed to do mining. The Cabinet has agreed to coply with NGT order,” he said.