With the Centre failing thrice to get a single bidder for the proposed four-lane project of stretches of National Highway 33 connecting Barhi with Bahragora, the state government today exerted pressure for starting the scheme on annuity (annual payment) basis.
During a national highway review and progress meeting chaired by Union minister of shipping, road transport and highways (MOSRTH) T.R. Baalu, senior representatives from the state today raised vital issues, including tender process for making NH-33 a four-lane stretch.
Development commissioner A.K. Singh and road construction secretary N.N. Sinha, who represented the state in the meeting, also raised the issue of increasing the lanes of the NH-31 between Barhi and Rajauli in the wake of neighbouring Bihar undertaking an ambitious project of making NH-31 four-lane between Bakhtiyarpur and Rajauli valley bordering Jharkhand.
The state representatives also stressed that the proposed four-lane projects in Jharkhand should include Bahragora to Kharagpur in Bengal on NH-6. The officials also stressed on the need of widening NH-80.
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