Bathinda – Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday thanked Union Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari for a slew of projects given to Punjab by the NDA government two of which including the Zirakpur-Bathinda and Amritsar-Bathinda highways, were inaugurated on Monday.Addressing a huge public gathering at Goniana as a thanksgiving gesture to the Union Minister who could not attend the same due to bad weather, the SAD president said that Gadkari had sanctioned road infrastructure projects worth nearly Rs 50,000 crore and that some of them were still in the process of completion while others would be taken up for construction soon.Badal also announced that in another bonanza for Punjab the Union Minister had informed him recently that two more prestigious projects which had been requested by the erstwhile SAD-BJP government had also been sanctioned by him. This included AmritsarDelhi expressway which would reduce the distance between the two cities by 100 kilometers besides reducing time travel and Jalandhar-Ajmer expressway. Giving further details, Badal said that two more projects which had started during the SAD-BJP tenure were on the verge of completion. He said this included the Hoshiarpur – Barnala highway and the ten lane ChandigarhLudhiana highway. He said Phagwara was also being connected to Jalandhar appropriately.

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