Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi discusses highway projects with Joshi

GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday discussed various highway project with Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Dr. C.P. Joshi at a high level meeting in Guwahati.

Chief Minister Gogoi while thanking Dr. Joshi for taking up the Comprehensive Road Development Programme by implementing both the NHDP and SARDP-NE programme in the State, said though there have been many improvements, a lot needs to be done to bring the State Highways to the national standard.

The Chief Minister requested Dr. Joshi to initiate necessary steps to start the construction work of 4 laning of NH-37 from Numaligarh to Dibrugarh within this year. This work was approved in the year 2005 on BoT ( Annuity) basis under SARDP-NE and was entrusted to NHAI for execution.

Considering its importance, the Chief Minister urged Dr. Joshi to implement urgently construction of 2 lane alternate route between Barak Valley (Silchar) to Nellie near Guwahati via Harangajao-Turuk covering a length of 244.235 km under SARDP-NE Phase-'A'.