According to Road construction minister Nand Kishore Yadav 24 of the Bihar’s 38 districts would be connected by four-lane roads in the next four to five years.The state will have four-lane roads emanating from Patna in all the four directions. The driveway along the Ganga will also be completed during the period.
The bridge construction corporation, which was “lying dead prior to the Nitish Kumar led National Democratic Alliance government taking over in 2005”, has built as many as 936 bridges on the rivers across the state in six years.
“Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has awarded the bridge construction corporation of the state for its exemplary work
The minister said the road sector alone had fetched an investment of Rs 5,000 crore under the public-private partnership (PPP) mode. “The government has already given its nod to the construction of another Rs 1502-crore maha-setu (mega bridge) on the Ganga from Bakhtiyarpur to Tajpur. Similarly, the Rs 970-crore Ara-Mohania highway is coming up under the PPP mode.”
The minister blamed the Centre for the ill health of the national highways in Bihar. “We are not satisfied with the upkeep of the national highways passing through the state. We have asked the Centre to de-notify National Highway 101 and National Highway 103 so that the state government could take them over and maintain them,” he added.
Bihar had only 2,109km of national highways when the NDA took over the reigns of the state.
“Today, we have as much as 4,857km of the state highways. The length of the state highways is more than double only in six years of the NDA rule in the state,” he said, adding that three to four new bridges each were in the making on the Ganga, Sone, Gandak, Kosi and other rivers in the state. He said these bridges would be completed within the four to five years.
The bridge construction corporation, which was “lying dead prior to the Nitish Kumar led National Democratic Alliance government taking over in 2005”, has built as many as 936 bridges on the rivers across the state in six years.
“Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has awarded the bridge construction corporation of the state for its exemplary work
The minister said the road sector alone had fetched an investment of Rs 5,000 crore under the public-private partnership (PPP) mode. “The government has already given its nod to the construction of another Rs 1502-crore maha-setu (mega bridge) on the Ganga from Bakhtiyarpur to Tajpur. Similarly, the Rs 970-crore Ara-Mohania highway is coming up under the PPP mode.”
The minister blamed the Centre for the ill health of the national highways in Bihar. “We are not satisfied with the upkeep of the national highways passing through the state. We have asked the Centre to de-notify National Highway 101 and National Highway 103 so that the state government could take them over and maintain them,” he added.
Bihar had only 2,109km of national highways when the NDA took over the reigns of the state.
“Today, we have as much as 4,857km of the state highways. The length of the state highways is more than double only in six years of the NDA rule in the state,” he said, adding that three to four new bridges each were in the making on the Ganga, Sone, Gandak, Kosi and other rivers in the state. He said these bridges would be completed within the four to five years.
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