Day before PM Modi visit, Naveen Patnaik asks Gadkari to improve NHs in Odisha
Sujit kumar bisoyi | TNN | Jan 4, 2019, 20:40 IST
File photo of Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik BHUBANESWAR: Day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to lay foundation stone for three national highway (NH) projects at Baripada, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday asked the Centre to improve condition of existing highway projects in Mayurbhanj district.
In a letter to Union highways minister Nitin Gadkari, the chief minister said Odisha is suffering a lot due to lack of timely maintenance, improvement and widening of the existing NHs in Odisha.
Expressing concern over condition of the Jharpokharia-Keonjhar-Sambalpur NH-49 that passes through Mayurbhanj district, Naveen said it is not in a traffic-worthy condition.
“Further, Hatgamahria-Benisagar up to junction with NH-49 near Singada passing through Mayurbhanj district has been declared in principle as an NH from February 17 but no improvement work has yet been started,” Naveen noted, adding that he has received many public complaints in this regard.
The chief minister also sought Gadkari’s intervention to consider four more major roads passing through Mayurbhanj as NHs. These include 135-km-long Bhadrak-Anandpur-Thakurmunda-Karanjia-Singada section, 110-km-long Shergarh-Nilgiri-Kaptipada-Baripada- West Bengal border section, 54-km-long Rairangpur-Bisoi-Bangiriposi-Kalabadia section and 70-km-long Jhashipur-Champua section.
In a letter to Union highways minister Nitin Gadkari, the chief minister said Odisha is suffering a lot due to lack of timely maintenance, improvement and widening of the existing NHs in Odisha.
Expressing concern over condition of the Jharpokharia-Keonjhar-Sambalpur NH-49 that passes through Mayurbhanj district, Naveen said it is not in a traffic-worthy condition.
“Further, Hatgamahria-Benisagar up to junction with NH-49 near Singada passing through Mayurbhanj district has been declared in principle as an NH from February 17 but no improvement work has yet been started,” Naveen noted, adding that he has received many public complaints in this regard.
The chief minister also sought Gadkari’s intervention to consider four more major roads passing through Mayurbhanj as NHs. These include 135-km-long Bhadrak-Anandpur-Thakurmunda-Karanjia-Singada section, 110-km-long Shergarh-Nilgiri-Kaptipada-Baripada- West Bengal border section, 54-km-long Rairangpur-Bisoi-Bangiriposi-Kalabadia section and 70-km-long Jhashipur-Champua section.
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