Underground expressway proposed between Siliguri & Sikkim
Sikkim's connectivity with the rest of the country may soon be addressed with an overseas construction company proposing to build an underground expressway between Sevoke in WB and Gangtok.
By PTI |
GAGTOK: Sikkim's overdependence on the vital National Highway 31A for connectivity with the rest of the country may soon be addressed with an overseas construction company proposing to build a state of the art underground expressway between Sevoke in West Bengal and Gangtok by 2012.
In the first of its kind road infrastructure for the North-East, US-based construction major 'Star universal Resources Company' has proposed to build the 53 km expressway having tunnels and bridges between Sevoke and Gangtok, official sources said.
It would built at the estimated cost of Rs 1550 crore to be borne by the company itself under private-public -partnership (PPP), the sources said.
The proposed expressway between Coronation bridge (Bag Pul) at Sevoke to Gangtok would have two pairs of tunnels of about 100 square km each of which one pair would be used for road traffic and the other standard broad gauge railway tracks, they said.
The mega project, for which the memorandum of understanding (mou) would be signed between Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling and the Star Universal Resource company at Gangtok on July 15, would be built on the build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis, the sources said.
As per the MoU, the developers would be responsible for construction and maintenance of the expressway for a period of 45 years from the date of the signing of the agreement between the two parties, they said.
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