PWD Minister Vijay Inder Singla and other Congress leaders during the foundation stone-laying ceremony of railway overbridge on Chuggiti-Ladhewali Road crossing in Jalandhar on Tuesday.

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, December 29

Minister of Public Works Department Vijay Inder Singla on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of railway overbridge (RoB) to be built across the Jalandhar-Pathankot level crossing on Chuggiti-Ladhewali Road. The project is pegged at Rs23.5 crore and is expected to complete in 18 months.

Accompanied by Member of Parliament Chaudhary Santokh Singh, MLAs Rajinder Beri, Sushil Kumar Rinku and Mayor Jagdish Raja, Singla said the work of 27 RoBs was underway in various parts of Punjab, which would give a huge relief to commuters. He said the Chuggiti-Ladhewali RoB will facilitate more than 1 lakh people, who live around Jalandhar-Pathankot and Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur roads.

The minister lauded the efforts of MLA Rajinder Beri in pushing through the proposals of the work and to get no-objection certificates (NOCs) from departments concerned for starting the project at the earliest. Singla disclosed that the RoB would be 12 metre wide and 450 metre long. He said the tender of the work had been given to Associates Engineers, Maqsudan.

The minister said his department had been carrying out 58 development works at the cost of Rs25 crore in Jalandhar district, which would be over soon. Singla directed the officials to send a proposal for Talhan Road, so that the work could be initiated soon. The PWD Minister also announced Rs 40 lakh for the construction of two bridges on the Bist-Doab Canal in Jalandhar West Constituency as sought by MLA Sushil Kumar Rinku.

Prominent among those present on the occasion included Commissioner of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, Municipal Commissioner Karnesh Sharma, SDM Rahul Sindhu, PWD Executive Engineer BS Tuli, PSPCL Deputy Chief Engineer Harjinder Singh Bansal, Engineer Avtar Singh, SDO Vishal Kumar and others.

Later in Shahkot constituency, the minister accompanied by MLA Hardev Singh Laddi Sherowalia dedicated a 3.71 km newly-carpeted road, which has come up at the cost of Rs 3.71 crore, to public. He said the work of constructing the road had been completed in six months. He said the work on the Gohir-Nakodar-Malsian road has also been finished at the cost of Rs1.70 crore.