Rajasthan to get 4 New Highways Projects

Rajasthan will get 4 new national highways projects for a total length of 822 km with a total estimated cost of Rs.7045 crore during the current year. Shri Mahadeo Singh Khandela, Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways announced this while addressing the press in Jaipur today. Of these 4 projects, 2 will be for four laning and one each for 6 laning and 2 laning of national highways. The projects are: four laning of Beawar – Pali – Pindwara stretch on NH-14, Reengus – Sikar stretch on NH-11, and 6-laning of Kishangarh – Udaipur – Ahmadabad stretch of NH-79, NH-79A, and NH-76 & NH-8. Paved shoulders work with 2-lane will be taken up in Darra – Jhalawar – Teen – Dhar stretch of NH-12. He further added that Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is entrusting two-laning of 4 National Highways works to NHAI. This will connect low density cities of Rajasthan and add additional 401 Km of 2-lane roads to the road network of the State. The stretches identified for the same are Lalsot –Dholpur on NH-11B, Padi – Dahod on NH 113, Fatehpur – Rajasthan Border on NH-65 and Jhalawar – Biaora of NH-12.
The Minister said that National Highways Authority of India has awarded four projects in the State of Rajasthan in which works have already been started. These projects are six laning of Kishangarh – Beawar Stretch of NH-8, four laning of Jaipur – Reengus Stretch of NH-11, four laning of Jaipur – Tonk Deoli Stretch of NH-12. This will provide 370 Km of world class highways with a total investment of Rs.2448 Crores. In addition to this, the work on the project of six laning of Gurgaon – Kotputli – Jaipur Stretch of NH-8 with 225 Km length costing Rs.1895 Crores has already been started and has achieved 33% progress. The Minister was in Jaipur to review the progress of works pertaining to construction of Highways in the State of Rajasthan including works of Central Road funds, Inter-state connectivity of roads, road joining places of Economic Importance and maintenance of Highways. He directed the NHAI officials and State Government officials to expedite implementation of approved projects, to achieve the targets fixed by the Ministry.